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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a pleasure to work with!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gens@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Unrelated but there is microui, a 1100 loc library in ansi C for a basic UI.

https://github.com/rxi/microui

[–] Zenoctate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is another called ImGui which is also cool! Written in C++.

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui