Projects sharing features with Microui

Sokol is a C hardware abstraction layer and cross-platform graphics library designed for managing windowing, input, and audio across different operating systems. It functions as a GPU resource manager and multimedia application framework, providing a unified API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics across WebGL, Metal, Direct3D, and OpenGL. The project is distinguished by its single-header implementation, which simplifies integration and portability. It utilizes a stateless render pass definition and a one-update-per-frame model to synchronize CPU data to GPU memory and manage resource lifecycles

This project is a collection of portable, header-only C functions designed for integration into software projects without complex build dependencies or external linking requirements. It provides a suite of low-level utilities for graphics, audio, and data management, focusing on direct memory manipulation and zero-dependency portability. By utilizing a single-header distribution model, the library simplifies dependency management while allowing developers to maintain full control over memory allocation and binary size through compile-time configuration. The library distinguishes itself by off

Cosmopolitan is a cross-platform C runtime library and build framework that enables the creation of single-file, self-contained executables. By providing a unified set of system headers and a specialized compiler toolchain, it allows developers to write low-level systems code that executes natively across multiple operating systems without requiring recompilation for each target environment. The project utilizes a polyglot binary format and a system call shimming layer to intercept and translate kernel requests, effectively bypassing standard library dependencies. This approach consolidates a

raygui is a C graphics interface toolkit and immediate mode GUI library used for building interactive utility panels. It functions as a themed UI framework that renders interface controls instantly based on application logic without maintaining persistent state. The toolkit includes a visual layout designer for managing icon sets and defining styles. It supports the application of custom themes and font data through binary files or embedded headers to modify the appearance of the interface. The library provides standard interface controls such as buttons, sliders, and color pickers, along wi

This project provides Rust bindings for the Dear ImGui library, enabling the creation of high-performance graphical user interfaces using an immediate-mode paradigm. By defining interface elements directly within the application render loop, it eliminates the need for persistent object hierarchies, allowing for rapid prototyping and dynamic visual updates. The library distinguishes itself by wrapping complex native function signatures in type-safe builders, which improves developer ergonomics while maintaining the performance characteristics of the underlying C++ implementation. It utilizes a

DearPyGui is a GPU-accelerated, immediate-mode graphical user interface framework for Python. It provides a high-performance toolkit for building interactive desktop applications by leveraging native hardware-accelerated rendering backends across multiple operating systems. By utilizing an immediate-mode execution model, the library offers direct control over the rendering loop and element state, enabling the creation of responsive, dynamic interfaces. The framework distinguishes itself through its ability to handle complex, high-frequency visual updates, making it suitable for real-time data

Clay is a header-only layout engine designed for C and C++ applications that computes element positions and dimensions using a declarative box model. By operating as an immediate-mode framework, it calculates interface geometry dynamically on every frame, allowing for the creation of responsive and fluid user interfaces without maintaining persistent state. The library functions as a platform-agnostic tool that decouples layout logic from specific graphics backends. It provides a flexible coordinate system that supports layered elements, such as modals and tooltips, alongside standard documen

This library is an immediate mode graphical user interface toolkit that reconstructs the entire interface every frame. By executing procedural code within a high-frequency loop that matches the display refresh rate, it allows developers to define interactive elements and state updates directly. The framework utilizes a multi-pass rendering approach to resolve layout dependencies, ensuring that widget sizes and positions are calculated accurately before final placement to prevent visual jitter. The project functions as a cross-platform graphics toolkit, providing a portable rendering layer tha

REFramework is a runtime modding framework for games built on the RE Engine, providing a C# plugin system with typed proxy code generation, a Lua scripting interface, an ImGui-based UI system, a runtime debugging toolkit, and a VR integration layer. At its core, it intercepts and modifies internal game engine functions and state at runtime through hooking and scripting APIs, enabling deep inspection and manipulation of live game objects. The framework distinguishes itself through typed proxy code generation that auto-creates C# interfaces from the game's type database, giving compile-time saf

DearPyGui is a hardware-accelerated Python GUI framework and graphics rendering engine. It operates as an immediate mode user interface system, rendering frames from scratch to ensure high performance and minimal state management for desktop applications. The project functions as a GPU-accelerated plotting library capable of rendering millions of data points with high frame rates. It also serves as a node editor toolkit for constructing interactive graph-based interfaces to manage visual data flows. The framework includes capabilities for custom 2D graphics rendering, interface theme customi

Ratatui is a Rust framework and cross-platform terminal renderer used to build rich terminal user interfaces. It functions as a toolkit for creating interactive command-line displays, dashboards, and data visualizations. The library employs an immediate mode rendering approach, where the interface is redrawn every frame based on the current application state. It uses a widget-based layout system to compose complex text-based interfaces. The framework includes a rectangle-based layout engine and a backend-agnostic drawing system to decouple UI logic from specific terminal emulators. It furthe

Leif is an OpenGL-backed immediate mode graphical user interface library and graphics rendering framework. It provides a lightweight control flow where layouts and components are rebuilt every frame without retaining an internal scene graph, backed by hardware-accelerated graphics. The framework utilizes GPU-accelerated batch rendering to draw high volumes of primitives efficiently by grouping geometry into single vertex buffers. Developers can bypass standard rendering wrappers to access the underlying renderer directly, drawing raw graphics and custom geometry alongside standard interface c

This application is a desktop network traffic analyzer that provides real-time monitoring and forensic inspection of data packets. By interfacing directly with low-level system drivers, it captures raw network traffic from physical or virtual adapters to identify communication patterns, track bandwidth usage, and diagnose connectivity issues. The system distinguishes itself through an immediate-mode graphical interface that rebuilds the display state every frame, ensuring high responsiveness during live data updates. It maintains performance by using asynchronous message passing to decouple t

PyQtGraph is a scientific plotting and graphics framework built for PyQt and PySide applications, providing fast, interactive 2D and 3D visualizations with GPU-accelerated rendering. It serves as both a real-time signal monitoring system for streaming time-series data and a toolkit for constructing interactive data dashboards with dockable panels, parameter trees, and custom widgets. The library also includes a node-based visual flowchart tool for building data processing pipelines and a scientific graphics export system that saves plots as PNG, SVG, or CSV and converts items to Matplotlib for

ArduinoJson is a C++ library for parsing and manipulating JSON data and MessagePack binary streams on microcontrollers with limited memory and processing power. It provides the core primitives necessary for embedded data serialization and parsing, enabling devices to exchange structured data over serial or network interfaces. The library is distinguished by its focus on microcontroller memory management, employing strategies such as pool-based allocation, string deduplication, and non-owning string views to minimize RAM usage. It further optimizes for constrained environments by allowing cons

Red is a programming language with a native compiler that translates high-level source code into standalone executables for Windows, macOS, and Linux without external runtime dependencies. It combines a cross-platform GUI development framework that renders native operating system widgets from a single codebase with a reactive data binding system that automatically synchronizes UI state with data sources. The language also includes an embedded DSL and parsing engine based on PEG grammar rules for defining and processing domain-specific languages within the language itself. The project distingu

React Email Editor is a drag-and-drop visual builder for creating responsive email templates, built as a React embeddable component. It also serves as an AI-powered email designer, a collaborative email design tool, and a React component library for composing emails programmatically with JSX. The editor represents designs as structured JSON and supports multi-format rendering for email clients, web pages, and PDF. What distinguishes this editor is its deep AI integration: users can generate full email templates from natural language, rewrite text with chosen intent, produce multiple text vari

olcPixelGameEngine is a cross-platform pixel game engine and rendering library designed for building two-dimensional games, simulations, and algorithm visualizations. It provides a framework for rendering graphics on a per-pixel basis across multiple operating systems. The project functions as an embedded UI framework, allowing for the creation of interactive interface elements and the management of user input within a pixel-based visual environment. It is used for pixel art rendering and the development of cross-platform graphics prototypes.

Macroquad is a Rust game engine and 2D graphics library designed for developing cross-platform games and graphical applications. It functions as a rendering engine that enables the deployment of a single codebase to desktop, mobile, and web targets. The engine utilizes an immediate mode rendering model, which allows for the creation of user interfaces and game worlds that render in a single pass within the main application loop. This approach is paired with hardware-accelerated 2D rendering and automatic draw call batching to optimize the display of geometry across different hardware devices.

Nannou is a creative coding framework for Rust designed for building interactive visual and audio sketches. It provides a loop-based API with hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D rendering, serving as a toolkit for generative art production and multimedia installation design. The framework is distinguished by its comprehensive hardware communication interface, which bridges software with physical devices via MIDI, OSC, DMX, serial, and laser DAC protocols. It also includes specialized projection mapping tools for warping visual output to fit non-standard physical surfaces and a dedicated GPU shader

Fyrox is a Rust-based game engine for building both 2D and 3D games, designed as a native engine with no runtime dependencies. It compiles directly to native code for Windows, macOS, Linux, and WebAssembly, providing direct hardware access through the Rust programming language. The engine is built around an entity-component-system architecture that organizes game objects as entities with attached components processed by modular systems. Its graph-based scene management represents game scenes as directed acyclic graphs of nodes with transform hierarchies and property inheritance, while a paral

Aseprite is a specialized graphics editor and animation suite designed for the creation of pixel-based artwork. It provides a comprehensive environment for managing multi-layered animation sequences, offering tools for frame-by-frame design, onion skinning, and real-time motion previews. The application is built to handle both indexed color palettes and full-color RGB editing, allowing users to maintain precise control over pixel data and transparency. What distinguishes Aseprite is its focus on programmable workflows and game asset production. It features a scriptable command architecture th

Llama2.c is a minimal inference engine designed to execute transformer-based language models using only standard C code. By implementing neural network forward passes without external dependencies or complex runtime environments, it provides a lightweight execution environment for running pre-trained models. The project distinguishes itself through a focus on portability and resource efficiency. It utilizes static memory allocation to avoid dynamic heap management and maps model parameter files directly into the process address space to minimize memory overhead. The implementation relies on s

This library is a portable, header-only engine designed for calculating the geometric positions and dimensions of nested rectangular elements. It provides a recursive stacking-box model to determine interface coordinates, serving as a lightweight solution for two-dimensional layout calculations in C99 or C++ environments. The engine distinguishes itself through its focus on portability and resource efficiency. It utilizes a dependency-free memory abstraction that allows developers to override default allocation and assertion routines, making it suitable for specialized or restricted computing

This project is a collection of single-header libraries providing a zero-dependency implementation of core game engine systems. It serves as a portable toolkit for 2D game development, focusing on asset loading, graphics optimization, and low-level system coordination. The libraries offer specialized capabilities for 2D sprite rendering and asset processing, including texture atlas compilation and batch-based rendering to reduce draw calls. It includes a dedicated pipeline for parsing Aseprite files and JSON-formatted map data from Tiled. The toolkit covers several functional domains, includ

RmlUi is a cross-platform UI renderer and middleware library that enables the creation of user interfaces using a subset of HTML and CSS. It functions as a rendering-agnostic layer designed to integrate web-standard layout and styling into custom game engines and embedded applications. The framework is distinguished by its integration of Lua for dynamic logic and control, as well as a specialized toolkit for rendering SVG images and Lottie animations. It utilizes a pluggable rendering backend that decouples geometry generation from the final display, allowing it to generate textured geometry

This project is a declarative UI pattern library and reference implementation for structuring layouts, navigation flows, and data collections across Apple platforms. It provides a collection of practical implementation patterns and component examples for building user interfaces using the SwiftUI framework. The library serves as a cross-platform reference for rendering visual content on iOS and macOS. It includes a view implementation guide that covers managing navigation, handling user inputs, and embedding web content. The codebase covers broad capability areas including layout management