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by preommr 1144 days ago
> The game dev UI complaint is because game engines use geriatric 2-way mutable state management UI code that is error-prone and brittle. Web developers have solved these UI complaints and built tools like React that make creating UIs easy

Borderline satire.
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capableweb 1144 days ago
Probably React is easy for someone who already knows it. Is it "simple"? No, not by many measures. Just like game dev UI is easy for someone who is used to it. Is it "simple" though? Nope, also not simple.

UI, simple as it seems to some and complex to others, seems to still be a problem that there is no simple solutions to, they all carry a lot of accidental complexity, web UIs or not.

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wsc981 1144 days ago
I don’t know if that comment was mainly regarding web-based game UI libraries, but it seems on many other platforms there are many stateless immediate mode UI libraries available. Many based on (or inspired by) Dear ImGui [0].

By the way, I tried to use an immediate mode game UI in the past (Lua-based, SUIT), but somehow I feel more comfortable working with object-based UIs. Perhaps years of object-oriented programming has damaged my brain a bit :)

I think in the past the object-oriented was seen as a big improvement regarding GUI dev, but I guess with regards to game dev, it can be problematic wrt performance.

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[0]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

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