[SpartanJ]

This is an ongoing trend that will continue until some of the new GUI-backed UIs gain some popularity. What we need right now is a real alternative to Electron based applications, and probably carrying new technologies. I know that we already have alternatives, like Qt, which is an amazing framework, but it doesn't fit all developer's needs and sometimes looks also "too big". I think that many devs are saturated of the HTML+CSS+JS ecosystem and want something new, maybe something less bloated in the sense of the tech specs. I celebrate the numerous projects that are appearing these days, to name a few: egui, iced, imgui, GuiLite, RmlUI, elements. They need more exposure, more collaborators, and more development, they need to grow.

Having said that, I'm working on an alternative GPU accelerated and retained-mode GUI called eepp (https://github.com/SpartanJ/eepp/) while I work on a new code editor similar to Zed called ecode (https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode). The framework still needs a lot of work but presents some ideas that might be interesting to some. Retained-mode GUIs are a complex beast and it's hard to achieve simplicity (I think immediate-mode GUIs can't be beaten in that regard, but they have their own downsides). So I invite anyone interested in GPU accelerated GUIs to take a look at my projects (online demos are available), I'm looking for collaborators! (sadly C++ isn't very appealing these days, but my code-base is huge and I can't write everything from scratch in a new fancy and cool language).