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SpartanJ
eepp
C++2020–2025
SpartanJ / eepp

eepp

eepp is an open source, cross-platform C++ GUI framework for building desktop applications, tools, and rich graphical interfaces.

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What it is

eepp is an open source, cross-platform C++ GUI framework for building desktop applications, tools, and rich graphical interfaces.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-08-10 22:20:33 UTC to 2025-09-25 14:44:01 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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SpartanJ·Feb 7, 2023
This is an ongoing trend that will continue until some of the new GUI-backed UIs gain some popularity. What we need right now is a real alternative to Electron based applications, and probably carrying new technologies. I know that we already have alternatives, like Qt, which is an amazing framework, but it doesn't fit all developer's needs and sometimes looks also "too big". I think that many devs are saturated of the HTML+CSS+JS ecosystem and want something new, maybe something less bloated in the sense of the tech specs. I celebrate the numerous projects that are appearing these days, to name a few: egui, iced, imgui, GuiLite, RmlUI, elements. They need more exposure, more collaborators, and more development, they need to grow. Having said that, I'm working on an alternative GPU accelerated and retained-mode GUI called eepp (https://gi
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thub.com/SpartanJ/eepp/) while I work on a new code editor similar to Zed called ecode (https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode). The framework still needs a lot of work but presents some ideas that might be interesting to some. Retained-mode GUIs are a complex beast and it's hard to achieve simplicity (I think immediate-mode GUIs can't be beaten in that regard, but they have their own downsides). So I invite anyone interested in GPU accelerated GUIs to take a look at my projects (online demos are available), I'm looking for collaborators! (sadly C++ isn't very appealing these days, but my code-base is huge and I can't write everything from scratch in a new fancy and cool language).
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