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duanebester / gooey

gooey

Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, Linux (Wayland/Vulkan), and Windows (Win32/Vulkan)

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688GitHub stars
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What it is

Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, Linux (Wayland/Vulkan), and Windows (Win32/Vulkan)

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-06-03 17:12:27 UTC to 2026-06-03 23:44:13 UTC.

0122026-06-03 17:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 3, 17:002026-06-03 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-03 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-03 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 3, 20:002026-06-03 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-03 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-03 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-06-03 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 3, 23:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jun 3, 17:002026-06-03 17:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 18:00:00 UTC110
Jun 3, 18:002026-06-03 18:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 19:00:00 UTC000
Jun 3, 19:002026-06-03 19:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 20:00:00 UTC000
Jun 3, 20:002026-06-03 20:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 21:00:00 UTC000
Jun 3, 21:002026-06-03 21:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 22:00:00 UTC101
Jun 3, 22:002026-06-03 22:00:00 UTC2026-06-03 23:00:00 UTC202
Jun 3, 23:002026-06-03 23:00:00 UTC2026-06-04 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec... I wonder if this is just what we get now: low quality code, expressed rapidly. We are excited by the promise only to be disappointed by the reality of the implementation. There are still a few new things around that are carefully and thoughtfully developed and put out into the world. zig itself. MitchellH's ghostty. And there's still all the older foundations of really wonderful, robust, software created by people like Linus Torvalds and couple of generations of open source devs, that applied great skill, ingenuity and hard work to produce the very best software. But I
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fear that I'm in for a period of lamentation as we get wave after wave of promising sounding developments, but where the reality is low quality, LLM generated crap that you really shouldn't use if you want secure, stable performant, production-ready software. Seems like perhaps we've been through a golden age of really great software and that now it's coming to a close. (edited to fix spelling)
In Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

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