rxi/microui
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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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…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…
comment by kragen · 2026-10-26 · in We should be more ambitious with the software we build -
…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# -
…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 -
…If this is too much "bloat", there are smaller, but also less powerful alternatives like microui: https://github.com/rxi/microui )
comment by flohofwoe · 2024-01-04 · in Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs -
https://github.com/rxi/microui the editor is a fork of: https://github.com/rxi/lite
comment by Kukumber · 2022-12-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua -
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…
comment by flohofwoe · 2022-12-23 · in Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library -
>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
comment by krapp · 2022-03-20 · in Ask HN: I'd like to practice coding GUI from scratch. Any recommendations? -
…the UI. The games are typically written in LÖVE with the exception of SCANLINE which uses Nim [1] https://github.com/rxi/microui
comment by rxi · 2020-07-06 · in I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua -
…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 -
I didn't check but I would assume it's based on https://github.com/rxi/microui by the same author.
comment by skrebbel · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor