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Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++

story by Bluestein · 2026-09-03 · 0 comments

…about reversing, and that was 3-4 years ago now! Also shoutout to the awesome GUI library is uses; https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by issung · 2026-09-03 · in Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

It is a shame that Spotify have not made their Dear ImGui-based version available: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/3075#issuecomment-60...

comment by TnS-hun · 2026-09-01 · in Fastpotify

…of components and apps built with it, but it's not quite there for me. Something is missing. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by barnabee · 2026-08-22 · in Stop Making TUIs

…indeed seem to be exposing a retained mode API. [1]: https://pthom.github.io/imgui_explorer/ [2]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by magicalhippo · 2026-08-04 · in You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

…menus. Literally all of them are using it as part of non-user-facing debug tools for 3D graphics: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Software-using-dear-im... Meta as part of their VR/gaming division, Google in their VR division and 3D…

comment by Intralexical · 2026-06-18 · in MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

…support is not more widespread, and furthermore it's a shame that it is so laborious to add it. 0: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/

comment by xyzzy_plugh · 2026-06-17 · in MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

I've been vibe coding some music tools and after some researching let Claude get going with imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ) to build a tool I use for local authoring. It's pretty pixel-dense and looks alright to me. It runs on…

comment by titzer · 2026-06-08 · in Stop the Apple Music app from launching

My take is that GUI frameworks/APIs have abandoned power users. Yes, there are things like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , and some (especially open source) applications try and muddle a long with Qt or GTK, but many (most?) serious…

comment by barnabee · 2026-06-02 · in Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

…done with a little work. You might also take a look at SwiftUI if you have an Apple device. [0]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by colejhudson · 2026-03-07 · in macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

…but I think there's not really something super mature and feature packed, or is there? I'm aware of https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , as the article also mentioned, but that's more for debug UIs, right?

comment by roflcopter69 · 2026-03-02 · in Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

Here's an informative explanation in the DearImgui library which chose this approach. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...

comment by lioeters · 2026-02-23 · in What I learned designing a barebones UI engine

…modern desktop UI applications with all the modern desktop UI application bells and whistles. [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [2] https://filepilot.tech/ [3] https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger

comment by nananana9 · 2026-02-09 · in A Broken Heart

…on desktop potentially attracting too many users at once but lacking support for all of them. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892#issuecomment-22...

comment by kvemkon · 2026-01-31 · in Why I Always End Up Going Back to C

…of directly adding a realtime runtime debugging UI to applications via something like Dear Imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/ ) which is at least extremely popular in game development - and in this case it's trivial to provide the…

comment by flohofwoe · 2026-01-26 · in Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?

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Retained vs. Immediate Mode GUI

story by michalsustr · 2025-11-28 · 0 comments

…certainly use it as a desktop editor if you wanted to, I think the real value is in embedding. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by oneseven · 2025-11-17 · in Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders

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Proposal: CMake build support · Issue #8896 · ocornut/imgui

story by adembudak · 2025-08-27 · 1 comment

Within game development it's Dear ImGui. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui Normally with the Windows DX12 backend, sometimes with the SDL+OpenGL backend if you want cross platform support. Other frameworks are sort of disappearing. C++ all…

comment by dazzawazza · 2025-08-09 · in Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

…you must) build your own integration. ImGUI and Nuklear each have 20+ backends in their repos: < https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/backends > < https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/tree/master/dem... >

comment by rollcat · 2025-08-06 · in I'm Archiving Picocrypt

…is that SwiftUI was Apple's direct response to React/Vue. [0]: https://github.com/emilk/egui [1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by dlivingston · 2025-07-23 · in A brief history of primary coding languages

Yes, "immediate" refers just to the API. Source: [1] [1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...

comment by oasisaimlessly · 2025-06-27 · in I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui

nah, we all know the "real-life CDE" is called either OpenGL (see ImGui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , egui https://github.com/emilk/egui etc) or... HTML/CSS/JS (see Electron, Tauri etc)

comment by dragochat · 2025-06-20 · in Open source can't coordinate?

I find the imgui UIs to be very high density ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy . It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to…

comment by iyeaton · 2025-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

…shortened: https://www.naturl.link/sOVcsG Or maybe it's better to link to the post in the issue #3 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8333#issuecomment-26... #4 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8333#issuecomment-28... In any…

comment by socalgal2 · 2025-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

…know if any of these are good, but there are 100s (1000s?) of examples of high density UIs here https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues?q=label%3Agallery So you don't have to dig, 3 examples https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6f62b5ca857954…

comment by socalgal2 · 2025-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

Needs even worse kerning for more nostalgia :D Also ought to be paired with https://github.com/ocornut/imgui I came up with a terrible pun shortly after seeing this: "Kern you feel the love tonight"

comment by benatkin · 2025-01-24 · in Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

…with Dear ImGui (C++) -- not a game engine, but originally/partly meant for use in them. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by achierius · 2025-01-13 · in What do you think about using a game engine for UI?

…transform vertices (call ImGui::ShadeVertsTransformPos) this is what angled headers are using https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/6917 I agree it's not first-class citizen yet, next year new text API should make this easier.

comment by ocornut · 2024-12-18 · in Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui

…Metal, GL etc... Font handling is based on stb_truetype.h, but can be replaced with FreeType: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/misc/freetype/R... In any case, versatile text rendering is certainly not the design focus of Dear…

comment by flohofwoe · 2024-12-18 · in Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui

…in the "screenshot threads" [1] for many examples which do have nicer fonts and text rendering. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Software-using-Dear-Im... [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues?q=label%3Agallery

comment by genezeta · 2024-12-18 · in Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui

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Imgui Screenshot Gallery

story by dsego · 2024-12-05 · 0 comments

Visual Studio has natstepfilter https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/misc/debuggers/...

comment by ksylvestre · 2024-11-15 · in Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

…[2] https://github.com/nothings/stb [3] https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf [4] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by alexvitkov · 2024-09-26 · in Rewriting Rust

…_hard_ and anything to make it easier is welcome. Maybe a dumb question, but why not Dear ImGui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ). "It's way too big and complex" is a completely reasonable answer, but I found it fantastic for debug…

comment by Esras · 2024-09-08 · in Microui+fenster=Small GUI

…Qt or SwiftUI or whatever that has hundreds if not thousands of developers contributing to it. [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892

comment by modeless · 2024-08-24 · in About the IMGUI Paradigm

…you started. Building components by hand is stone age ideology regardless of how you push state. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/examples/exampl... > "Easy to use to create dynamic UI which are the reflection of a dynamic data…

comment by akira2501 · 2024-08-24 · in About the IMGUI Paradigm

…have to roll your own solution. Otherwise, ImGuiListClipper exists for exactly this kind of thing. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/864a2bf6b824f9c1329d84...

comment by TillE · 2024-08-24 · in About the IMGUI Paradigm

…left-to-right text and 7-bit ASCII... Cornut recently did a 10 year retrospective of Dear ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892 - an interesting read for me, as a Dear ImGui library user for many years now, but worth your…

comment by tom_ · 2024-08-23 · in About the IMGUI Paradigm

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About the IMGUI Paradigm

story by ibobev · 2024-08-22 · 47 comments

…[5]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg [6]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType [7]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4400#issuecomment-89...

comment by thangalin · 2024-08-17 · in Home to Anything JavaFX Related

…"imgui" has been hogging up the whole acronym. I am sorry for the confusion caused even today. [] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892

comment by lainga · 2024-08-16 · in ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

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10 Years of Dear ImGui

story by todsacerdoti · 2024-08-15 · 6 comments

…ImGui [2]. [0] https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables [1] https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11 [2] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by pansa2 · 2024-08-02 · in Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

This discussion around adding shadows to window boarders in imgui is also interesting: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1329

comment by winrid · 2024-07-21 · in So you think you know box shadows?

…models. I think imgui (of the bunch) is probably closest to the GCC-of-the-early-90's idea. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [1] https://github.com/jlaumon/AssetCooker [2] https://www.cncf.io/projects/

comment by maccard · 2024-07-11 · in Plausible Community Edition

…engines created and used by a (very large) game studio that uses ImGUI. It often isn't a secret: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Software-using-dear-im...

comment by NekkoDroid · 2024-07-01 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

…Windows UI, where there are no native controls at all, and it's a nightmare for accessibility (see https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4122 ). I use it for prototyping privately, but I'd never make anything I want to release into the…

comment by Sakos · 2024-06-30 · in Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

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Dear ImGui version v1.90.6 released

story by ibobev · 2024-05-08 · 0 comments

Alternatively there's also ImGui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

comment by cookiengineer · 2024-03-19 · in Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy