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rxi
microui
C2019–2026
rxi / microui

microui

A tiny immediate-mode UI library

14Distinct people
19Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7KGitHub stars
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A tiny immediate-mode UI library

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-02-19 15:50:40 UTC to 2026-10-26 19:45:43 UTC.

012342019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321

What Hacker News says

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This is extremely informative! Thank you very much! It might be helpful to add your comment to the GitHub repository so people can find it in the future. rxi's MicroUI is a similar (but human-written) project whose interface is immediate-mode; it supports overlapping windows, which is 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 commentary.
In We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I'm using Dear ImGui for my cross-platform projects (which includes running in browsers): - https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/ - (start the emulators by clicking the little "UI" icon to get the debugger UI) https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ - (start by clicking the little "UI" icon) https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/ Platform abstraction is handled through the sokol headers: https://github.com/floooh/sokol Dear ImGui is small and fast enough for running in browsers (it will add up to a few hundred KBytes of WASM byte code). If this is too much "bloat", there are smaller, but also less powerful alternatives like microui: https://github.com/rxi/microui)
In Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
The resident memory was 10MB in my windows machine when I ran this. A strong reason for me to use this would be in a low powered device. I want to write markdown in a tiny editor like this. I want to run multiple projects side by side and this is good for that. If I'm a beginner trying do dev on a machine lower than 4G of RAM. So many more examples come to my mind. I'm pretty sure there are more 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
In Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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