eliasnaur

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by eliasnaur 5y ago
FWIW, Gio (gioui.org) recently added support for RTL languages and complex scripts. So there's no fundamental reason immediate mode UIs can't have the nice features you're used to from retained mode UIs.
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by eliasnaur 5y ago
With intelligent frame pacing you can sacrifice, say, a frame of input latency to sustain high frame rates. See https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/gpu/2021/10/22/swapc... . > Are immedia
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by eliasnaur 5y ago
The immediate mode Gio (gioui.org) toolkit has support for accessibility (on Android for now), IME and, recently, RTL text layout. Disclaimer: I'm the author.
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by eliasnaur 6y ago
Sadly even imgui cannot get around the fact that many operating systems (macOS/iOS/Android) force you to give up your main thread. Linux and, perhaps surprisingly, Windows are good guys in this regard.
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by eliasnaur 6y ago
It happened by accident. Originally I wanted to run on bare-metal, and thought UEFI would be a good starting point. THen I never got around to adding multiboot and similar support.
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Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs(groups.google.com)
184 points by eliasnaur 6y ago|18 comments
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by eliasnaur 7y ago
Gomobile bridges Java and ObjectiveC/Swift to Go, and probably entails the same overhead the author is trying to avoid. Shameless plug: If you like Go and immediate mode UIs in particular, Gio[0] runs the same Go code across desktop an
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Show HN: Immediate Mode GUI in 100% Go for iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, Windows(groups.google.com)
8 points by eliasnaur 8y ago|1 comments