I settled for Yue: https://github.com/yue/yue https://github.com/yue/yue It's been around for several years, though definitely doesn't have the developer or use

I settled for Yue: https://github.com/yue/yue https://github.com/yue/yue It's been around for several years, though definitely doesn't have the developer or user base of other well-known frameworks. The deciding factor for me was that is has well maintained Lua bindings as part of the core project, alongside JavaScript (Node.js) and C++. I didn't have much luck with libui (crashes, missing features, etc), and various immediate mode alternatives just require too many dependencies and other work that made integration painful. Plus, Lua bindings for these were always stale. In fact, Lua binding quality is pretty poor all around, including GTK, Qt, WxWidgets, and FLTK.