CUI – Native UI components for C

Okay, so this is cool, but also vibecoded by someone who just does frontend. I totally support AI development, but the first commit was 4 days ago and it's entirely written by claude. The UI looks like "the style that that AI comes up with" turned into a C framework.

I don't want to discourage this kind of experimentation, but I also question how much of the last 20+ years of UI and C knowledge was not used in the construction of this project. Also, do I want to build a kanban board in C? Unsure.

Just take care when evaluating this for actual usage.

C increasingly makes sense for compile times if you can have a separate Fable pass on memory safety, etc.

Any pre-built examples? Even if it's something like a calculator.

More like custom UI components. Native would have been if you had wrapped e.g. Cocoa NSButton on macOS and Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.Button on WinUI.

Looks great, but node editor is janky on mobile.

Looks like ShadCN. That too in C. It's really really elegant.

EDIT: It's immediate mode.

this looks really sweet actually. didnt dig into the backing code yet but the examples look really nice and clean to implement a UI with. well done.

Looks lovely, but without long term support and hostory, I wouldn't touch it with someone else's long stick.

Can you please prompt your agent to generate a C++ binding?

CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information.

The acronym collision is entertaining. I now want to use CUI to mark up my CUI.

This looks like built by someone raised exclusively on web and touch technologies, forgetting that both are the results of constraints. The web was not meant to be a UI platforms and have poor primitives, and touch devices lack precise positioning and

Take the chips and rating as an example

https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/#/c/chips-and-rating

It’s purely aesthetic as functionality (and ux) wise, chips are not different from checkbox with labels and rating is just a discrete slider.

And as I thought, you can see the duplicate code for switch and checkbox here.

https://github.com/yappologistic/CUI/blob/f1202e6d98cdc297f9...

People do need to differentiate between UX primitives and something that just looks different.

Shame to put effort into encouraging more C code. All C code needs to be torn out by the roots. I don't care how carefully crafted it is and how many Fable passes have been done, it is inherently unsafe.