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Single header, no dependencies, cross platform, immediate mode, and the GUI examples actually look good... that’s wild.

by azhenley 6y ago

bitexploder 6y ago
ImGui is nice too. I use it for quick UI hacks in Python :)
- moonchild 6y ago
  Should clarify that you're referring (I presume) to dear imgui. Imgui in general refers to the immediate mode gui paradigm in general, as opposed to retained mode gui.
  - bitexploder 6y ago
    Yes that one. Though I have only ever seen dear imgui written as ImGui. It’s really sweet. I taught my 14 year old son the basics and he is making all sorts of weird GUIs now lol
jki275 6y ago
It's really nice. I was surprised at how well it works. Downloaded it, ran make inside the example folder, and it built working examples.
CyberRabbi 6y ago
Not to mention written in C89. This person knows how to distribute code well. I love libraries like this, I wish we had more.
- tom_mellior 6y ago
  How relevant is C89 really nowadays? As far as I understand it took MSVC a long time to catch up to C99, but it's been there for a long time now. Is the motivation more related to retrocomputing? I would expect that decades-old compilers for retro platforms might not be reliably C89 conforming either.
  - tsegratis 6y ago
    msvc's still not hit C99, but to be fair, they're not aiming for it (last I checked a year or two ago)
  - augustk 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations Only 7 of the 24 compilers in the list fully implements C99 whereas I would guess all those compilers implement C89. If you want to write long-lived programs, C89 is a good choice.
    - tom_mellior 6y ago
      Thanks, though those numbers may be a bit misleading. It's probably feasible to have very widely portable programs in C99-except-obscure-pragmas. But MSVC in particular seems to be less far along than I thought. Oh well.
      - augustk 6y ago
        Also, the difference between C89 and C99 is not that big.
  - CyberRabbi 6y ago
    It’s not just retro computing, new hardware platforms bootstrap themselves by providing a c89 compiler. It’s just good form. Imo c99’s additional features are not worth losing nearly universal portability. It’s trivial to reimplement most of c99’s useful features with a small header if you must, as this library does.
frkloovb 6y ago
Why is a single headerness so important here?
- bmn__ 6y ago
  For the general reasons. https://github.com/nothings/stb#why-single-file-headers https://github.com/nothings/stb#why-single-file-headers
- spacechild1 6y ago
  It's not important at all. “single-header-library“ in C basically means #including a .c file in disguise. It's for people who are too lazy to add a source directory to their build system...

Single header, no dependencies, cross platform, immediate mode, and the GUI examples actually look good... that’s wild.

bitexploder 6y ago

ImGui is nice too. I use it for quick UI hacks in Python :)

moonchild 6y ago
Should clarify that you're referring (I presume) to dear imgui. Imgui in general refers to the immediate mode gui paradigm in general, as opposed to retained mode gui.
- bitexploder 6y ago
  Yes that one. Though I have only ever seen dear imgui written as ImGui. It’s really sweet. I taught my 14 year old son the basics and he is making all sorts of weird GUIs now lol

jki275 6y ago

It's really nice. I was surprised at how well it works. Downloaded it, ran make inside the example folder, and it built working examples.

CyberRabbi 6y ago

Not to mention written in C89. This person knows how to distribute code well. I love libraries like this, I wish we had more.

tom_mellior 6y ago
How relevant is C89 really nowadays? As far as I understand it took MSVC a long time to catch up to C99, but it's been there for a long time now. Is the motivation more related to retrocomputing? I would expect that decades-old compilers for retro platforms might not be reliably C89 conforming either.
- tsegratis 6y ago
  msvc's still not hit C99, but to be fair, they're not aiming for it (last I checked a year or two ago)
- augustk 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations Only 7 of the 24 compilers in the list fully implements C99 whereas I would guess all those compilers implement C89. If you want to write long-lived programs, C89 is a good choice.
  - tom_mellior 6y ago
    Thanks, though those numbers may be a bit misleading. It's probably feasible to have very widely portable programs in C99-except-obscure-pragmas. But MSVC in particular seems to be less far along than I thought. Oh well.
    - augustk 6y ago
      Also, the difference between C89 and C99 is not that big.
- CyberRabbi 6y ago
  It’s not just retro computing, new hardware platforms bootstrap themselves by providing a c89 compiler. It’s just good form. Imo c99’s additional features are not worth losing nearly universal portability. It’s trivial to reimplement most of c99’s useful features with a small header if you must, as this library does.

frkloovb 6y ago

Why is a single headerness so important here?

bmn__ 6y ago
For the general reasons. https://github.com/nothings/stb#why-single-file-headers https://github.com/nothings/stb#why-single-file-headers
spacechild1 6y ago
It's not important at all. “single-header-library“ in C basically means #including a .c file in disguise. It's for people who are too lazy to add a source directory to their build system...