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There used to be a UI library on the Amiga called MUI.
It used a bunch of C macros to let you define the window and all the controls. Was honestly pretty good considering it was like 30 years ago.
It was a pleasure to work with!
Right? I can't tell you how disappointed I was to move to a "real" PC later and find the tools to be so much worse. Like you could position stuff with a GUI in VB or Delphi, but if you wanted to resize a window, it was a real faff to get everything moving about as it should.
Unrelated but there is microui, a 1100 loc library in ansi C for a basic UI.
https://github.com/rxi/microui
There is another called ImGui which is also cool! Written in C++.
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui