Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
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- 30 Oct 2026
What people said
“Within game development it's Dear ImGui. Normally with the Windows DX12 backend, sometimes with the SDL+OpenGL backend if you want cross platform support. Other frameworks are sort of disappearing. C++ all the way although some use it with C#.”
“I find the imgui UIs to be very high density ( and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler:. It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.”
“I don't know if any of these are good, but there are 100s (1000s?) of examples of high density UIs here So you don't have to dig, 3 examples…”
“I always point to the Metal-API debugger in Xcode for what I'd want a CPU debugger to look like, visualizing dependencies and dataflows with an actual graphical UI, letting me view data as something else than just hex dumps (e.g. as image or 3D mesh), etc... etc... Of course the…”
“strange - maybe HN cut them off? or maybe github does something special? URL 3: shortened: URL 4: shortened:…”
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