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A tiny immediate-mode UI library

19 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 9 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-02-19 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. …trivial in retained mode (now that we have CPU to spare) but a little bit tricky in immediate mode. https://github.com/rxi/microui is about 1500 lines of C. I'm especially impressed with your perseverance in the face of such low-quality…
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    MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2026-06-17 · 87 comments
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    microui: A tiny immediate-mode UI library
    story by tosh · 2026-03-27 · 0 comments
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    Microui: A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
    story by welovebunnies · 2025-10-05 · 0 comments
  5. …do any dynamic memory allocation. Here's a library that does this in C in case you are wondering: https://github.com/rxi/microui .
    comment by waqar144 · 2025-02-03 · in Why Tracebit is written in C#
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    Microui: Tiny immediate-mode UI library
    story by ingve · 2024-06-21 · 0 comments
  7. …gets the job done. Which I forked to work with SDL2[1], no guarantees. It's fun to hack on. [0] https://github.com/rxi/microui [1] https://github.com/kennethrapp/microui
    comment by krapp · 2024-01-15 · in Immediate Mode GUI Programming
  8. …If this is too much "bloat", there are smaller, but also less powerful alternatives like microui: https://github.com/rxi/microui )
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    MicroUI: Tiny immediate-mode UI library
    story by nateb2022 · 2024-01-02 · 1 comment
  10. https://github.com/rxi/microui the editor is a fork of: https://github.com/rxi/lite
  11. The price for the 'lightest' general UI toolkit probably goes to microui: https://github.com/rxi/microui Just around 1100 lines of C code. You need to bring your own renderer, but that's the same for Nuklear or Dear ImGui. I wrote a WASM…
  12. >It is the simplest thing in the world. Not even close... https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/nanogui https://github.com/rxi/microui https://www.fltk.org/ https://github.com/achimdoebler/UGUI
  13. …the UI. The games are typically written in LÖVE with the exception of SCANLINE which uses Nim [1] https://github.com/rxi/microui
  14. …Also the immediate UI library from the same author is very good and the examples are amazing. 1. https://github.com/rxi/microui 2. https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/index.html
    comment by vijaybritto · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  15. I didn't check but I would assume it's based on https://github.com/rxi/microui by the same author.
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    Microui: A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
    story by rxi · 2020-03-08 · 0 comments
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    MicroUI: Tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
    story by ingve · 2019-03-30 · 0 comments
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    [microui] Tiny, Portable, Immediate-Mode UI Library written in ~1100 sloc of C
    story by bwidlar · 2019-02-20 · 0 comments
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    MicroUI: Tiny, Portable, Immediate-Mode UI Library Written in ANSI C
    story by ingve · 2019-02-19 · 0 comments