Yue alternatives and similar libraries
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webview
Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows). -
libui
Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports. -
FTXUI
Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang -
SixtyFPS
DISCONTINUED. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint] -
GacUI
GPU Accelerated C++ User Interface, with WYSIWYG developing tools, XML supports, built-in data binding and MVVM features. -
Turbo Vision
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support. -
xtd
Free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, GUI (forms like WinForms) and unit test applications and libraries on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux. -
cuda-api-wrappers
Thin C++-flavored header-only wrappers for core CUDA APIs: Runtime, Driver, NVRTC, NVTX. -
CTPG
Compile Time Parser Generator is a C++ single header library which takes a language description as a C++ code and turns it into a LR1 table parser with a deterministic finite automaton lexical analyzer, all in compile time. -
Brisk
Cross-platform C++20 GUI framework featuring MVVM architecture, reactive capabilities, and scalable, accelerated GPU rendering. -
ncurses
snapshots of ncurses - see https://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html (no pull requests are accepted) -
fox-toolkit
Unofficial Zenotech specific mirror of fox-toolkit; please refer to upstream site for latest version -
NotificationManager
A thread-safe, easy-to-use, utility for sending and receiving notifications. It allows you to decouple different modules of your application.
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Yue
A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps.
Getting started
Examples
- Sample apps (with screenshots)
- Muban - Build desktop apps with webview
- Wey - Open source Slack app
- CrossClip - Sync clipboard across platforms
- React-Yue - Render the views of Yue with React
Issues
Feel free to ask any kind of questions in the issues page, but please use English since other users may find your questions valuable.
License
The Yue project is licensed under LGPL v2.1 with following exception:
- If you did not modify Yue's source code, you have the permission to statically link Yue with your project, regardless of the license of your project.
The source code of Yue can also be distributed under other proprietary software friendly licenses if you make a commercial contract with the owners of the Yue project.
Contributor license agreement
By sending a pull request, you hereby grant to owners and users of Yue project a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.
The owners of the Yue project will also be granted the right to relicense the contributed source code and its derivative works.
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, scripts/
and sample_app/
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public domain, and contributions to those works will also be licensed so.
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