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The most minimal cross-platform GUI library

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-01-23 · latest 2025-11-22

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  1. …to dump some links really quick, which should get anyone started. Getting a framebuffer on screen: https://github.com/zserge/fenster I would recommend something like SDL if you want a more complete platform abstraction, it even supports…
  2. I believe fenster [1] is an alternative. [1]: https://github.com/zserge/fenster
  3. There's also https://github.com/zserge/fenster which is fairly minimal and comes with Go bindings out of the box.
    comment by zserge · 2023-02-05 · in C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel
  4. …small enough to not overflow the stack ^ This is the very definition of a naive implementation, and https://github.com/zserge/fenster/blob/e71d493fa6d544243dd60... settings one pixel at a time, is too. Delightfully charming as it might be…
    comment by wokwokwok · 2023-01-24 · in Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
  5. Single-header library available on Github: https://github.com/zserge/fenster Nb. found via lobste.rs but thread dead there so worth an HN post since content is absolutely superb (as is usual from zserge!)
    comment by dingdingdang · 2023-01-24 · in Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics