imgui

This is based on the Dear ImGui library/framework [0]. It's not intended, strictly speaking, for standard desktop applications. It's intended for applications that use 3d rendering, like games or CAD. Although you could 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

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 the way although some use it with C#.

Immediate mode UI toolkits are designed for pluggable backends, some even can discover the appropriate backend at runtime. If you're writing a game, you're expected to (and actually, 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...>

Ugh, yes, I could not wrap my mind around QML either. I've dabbled in SwiftUI as a hobbyist and find it generally easy to use, though I do agree that the traditional Storyboard approach is easier to wrap my head around (also an amateur hobbyist there, with emphasis on amateur). My experience is that iteration and development speed in SwiftUI is noticeably faster, but once your app reaches some level of stasis and maturity, the Storyboard approach is more robust and easier to manage and understand. I have some thoughts on why but we'll save that for another day. My favorite UI framework as a developer is egui [0] with Dear ImGui [1] in second place. Unfortunately, Dear ImGui is ugly as sin. egui is decent enough. My understanding is that SwiftUI was Apple's direct response to React/Vue. [0]: https://github.com/emilk/egui [1]: https://githu

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

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)

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 understand and interrogate their work.

strange - maybe HN cut them off? or maybe github does something special? URL 3: https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/4... shortened: https://www.naturl.link/mDBwyX URL 4: https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/4... 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 case, you can follow the first link and browse the galleries.

I don't 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/6f62b5ca8579543a1f59eceed... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/4... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/4...

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"

I've recently had a lot of fun/success with Dear ImGui (C++) -- not a game engine, but originally/partly meant for use in them. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui