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by hoodoof 3686 days ago
Juce is another interesting UI lib https://www.juce.com/

Works with Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android.

Strangely, juce seems to have a revamped website that has no pictures or screenshots of the juce user interface and its widgets. Weird. Not sure how effective that marketing is...

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I know, we always do this, but...

I hate this website. I feel like I'm looking at a Medium post, stuff is popping around as I scroll, hero carousel, unclear Metro-style tiles that turn black and disappear the text on mouse-over, the works. Spent way too much time trying to figure out where the API docs and examples were hidden.

Agreed 110%.

Gimme a screenshot of something built with it, a snippet of a Hello World, tell me where it runs, point me to the docs, and point me to a download.

I can't use scrolling pictures of people looking at code(!), I'm not about to watch a keynote, I don't want a "developer story", I don't want links to "companies using"! I shouldn't need to click twice to get to "features," that ought to be the first thing I see!

The remainder might well be useful for some audiences, and as jumping-off point to get a sense of the ecosystem and community around the software, but put it at least a little bit below the fold.

Judging from all the jobs listed on the Juce careers page it looks like they got a bunch of investment money and spent it on "going corporate".

Here's what Sensei Jeff has to say about that: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-it-looks-corporate-change-i...

I have to say I agree. The old site was plain and simple and straightforward. I think a site can look great but doesn't need to be overly fancy. (says me, now I'll get back to implementing that fancy UI feature).
I guess what makes Libui interesting is its C language implementation.
And Swing is Java. So?

C and C++ are not the same, by a long shot.

Juce UI apps looked pretty bad with stock UIs. But it's used a lot in the music plugin community, where custom skins are king.
Juce is a great library but it doesn't target the native feel (last time i checked) which libui does.