Many decades ago when I worked on a C++ team we hired very smart but not C++ guru employees. I wrote a portable graphics library so team members could write X11 apps without learning details that domain experts really didn’t need to learn. With my company’s permission, I rewrote that code on my own time and added support for Mac, and Windows. That code became the two editions of my Portable GUIs with C++ books for McGraw-Hill.

Sorry to rant so much off topic, but mostly being retired now I have been thinking of getting back into C++ (I usually use Lisp languages and Python now). I think this very cool project will be the start of a few very fun days of playing with C++ again.

[1] https://github.com/freedesktop/pixman [2] https://github.com/nakst/luigi

Also, to keep the core drawing code short so that it can be fully listed on a blog post or in a print magazine.

What I liked is is a self-sufficient set of files that compile immediately without any dependency issues (even on the Mac). There should be more work like that:

- making it even easier to use

- making it simpler and simpler

- making it faster

- making the library footprint smaller

Thanks!

Microui seems very cool as well but not in a "the comments section is very often longer than this code" sense. Still, I'll definitely be poking around with this a bit more for the novelty.

Maybe a dumb question, but why not Dear ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui). "It's way too big and complex" is a completely reasonable answer, but I found it fantastic for debug menus, and there are a few applications that have used it as their _main_ GUI (Ship of Harkinian as an example).

(Edit for fixing the name of the project)

Any suggested reading?

Or, can I already?

Or is it just the header there? I see there is both a Cpp and a Go file there too, so I am a bit unsure which does what.