<story><title>C++ UI Libraries</title><url>https://philippegroarke.com/posts/2018/c++_ui_solutions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>&amp;gt; Dear ImGui&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Cons&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; nothing jumps out to me&lt;p&gt;Why the &lt;i&gt;fuck&lt;/i&gt; am I reading this article? I could easily write &amp;quot;nothing jumps out to me&amp;quot; or list a bunch of first-impressions of GUI libraries. But I can tell you off-hand a list of cons for Dear ImGui, and if you&amp;#x27;re interested there are plenty of Qt -vs- ImGui comparisons out there based on people who have actually switched and done a writeup. (Various people fall on both sides of this debate.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deplinenoise.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;why-qt-and-not-imgui&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deplinenoise.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;why-qt-and-not...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;bkaradzic&amp;#x2F;853fd21a15542e0ec96f7268150f1b62&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;bkaradzic&amp;#x2F;853fd21a15542e0ec96f726815...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are definitely use cases out there where Dear ImGui is a clear winner over Qt, and vice versa, and if you&amp;#x27;re going to compare GUI frameworks I would expect to want to know more about them.&lt;p&gt;I have a big ole&amp;#x27; bag of Google Docs that contain comparisons like this, but I sure as hell ain&amp;#x27;t gonna share them because they&amp;#x27;re full of subjective declarations and I stop evaluating an option as soon as I&amp;#x27;ve figured out it doesn&amp;#x27;t meet my needs.</text></comment>
<story><title>C++ UI Libraries</title><url>https://philippegroarke.com/posts/2018/c++_ui_solutions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>&amp;gt; Cons: [...] I don’t like it&lt;p&gt;I found that reasoning funny for something like Qt that almost everyone knows, but as i was reading on and on, i found myself asking &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; to many of those cons (and some pros). I do not think this list is very useful really, it is mainly a link dump and the descriptions also seem to be taken from the sites, at least for the less popular ones. I&amp;#x27;d prefer to see an actual review (even a single paragraph, it would help explain why &amp;quot;IDE?&amp;quot; is both a pro and con for U++) which go a bit more in detail than &amp;quot;ugly af&amp;quot; (which i disagree with, btw, i like how Fox Toolkit looks) and &amp;quot;sourceforge&amp;quot; (wth is the problem with a site&amp;#x27;s project being on sourceforge? It provides excellent tools for projects, not everyone has to monoculture themselves on GitHub).&lt;p&gt;Also it is a bit wrong. Both Motif and WTL are not dead projects, Motif is still getting updates (although it is mostly bugfixes) and WTL has new commits often with the original developer at the helm.</text></comment>