Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by rer on Sunday August 28, 2016 @07:04PM (#12378967)

Ok, no GTK+! (Could this be fixed with GLib?)

I didn't understand this. When you say you implement the UI as a thin layer do you mean you wrap only the few controls you need?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by andlabs on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:14PM (#12456307)

libui only wraps around GTK+ on Unix systems. On Windows, it uses the native Windows API directly.

GLib is a utility library; it provides things like container types, filesystem access, networking utilities, threads, object-oriented programming with events and properties, and other similar functions in a platform-independent manner. GTK+ uses GLib. You can use GLib on its own as well. It won't solve the problem of GTK+ being clunky on Windows, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by rer on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:43PM (#12471210)

What I don't get is: which library lets you draw stuff on the screen. GLib or GTK+?

I thought that was GLib, and GTK+ was using GLib to implement controls.

Which library does one need to build their own controls?

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