alt Hacker News> DearIMGUI can probably already do like 85% of what modern webapps do
I’m with you. Main blocker I’ve seen to “just use ImGui for everything” (which I’d love to adopt), is if I run ImGui in WASM the keyboard doesn’t open on mobile. This seems possible in theory because egui does it.
Even though running ImGui on mobile via WASM isn’t the primary use case, inevitably the boss or someone is going to need to “just do a quick thing” and won’t be able to on mobile, and this seems to be a hard ceiling with no real escape hatch or workaround.
One of those scenarios where, if we have to use a totally different implementation (React or whatever) to handle this 1% edge case, we might as well just use that for the other 99%.
I'd say two things about this.
1. Opening the native keyboard and plumbing those events through to the WASM runtime sounds pretty easy. It's probably not cause modern software, but conceptually it should be trivial.. right??
2. In terms of 'the boss' wanting to do 'that one weird thing' that there isn't a library/plugin/whatever for in DearImgui land. If dev time for everything else gets faster, than the 10x cost of that small corner case can be absorbed by net win. Now, I'm pretty sus on the claim everything else gets better today, but we can certainly imagine a world where they do, and it's probably not far away