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by cryo 2401 days ago
Is andlabs/ui still maintained? The last commit is from September 2018. Personally I love Qt since it's modular and I only use (and ship) the parts needed by the application.

It exists since 1995 and is still heavily maintained and modernized over time. I don't know any other GUI cross-platform library like that.

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It's maintained, but by one dev in their spare time as near as I can tell. The parent libui project is in the midst of a refactoring.

We're considering using it for some simple client UI stuff and if we do we plan to make a donation.

This would take a lot of work to be powerful enough for a complex rich UI, but the world needs a basic cross platform UI lib for doing simple interfaces. It's absurd for things like file sync clients and VPN clients to spin up f'ing Electron to provide a UI, but they often do.

This is maintained. libui is the parent project.