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by admax88q 3686 days ago
It's absolutely lower-level. How do you think those widgets get drawn in the end? Via primitive operations like GDI+/OpenGL or just bit blits.

GUI Widgets are a higher level of abstraction on top of pixels. SDL gives you pixels or an OpenGL context which gives you a slightly abstracted way of rendering pixels.
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ausjke 3685 days ago
Then if libui supports libsdl as it does to gtk-3.0 it would be nice, as gtk-3.0 is still quite heavy for many embedded systems.

libui is based on C, and it is not really suited to compete with the c++/java full GUIs on Desktops, so supporting libsdl will certainly expand its usage.

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