Re:Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
by throwaway684936 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:43PM
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>What is driving their authors to pursue this design?
The fact that it requires an order of magnitude less code to do functionally the same thing as traditional toolkits.
>Why aren't they choosing a declarative design?
Because they aren't trying to build a native, standalone desktop application. Declarative design makes little sense for quick and dirty developer tools that just need to directly view and modify simple data structures.
The fact that it requires an order of magnitude less code to do functionally the same thing as traditional toolkits.
>Why aren't they choosing a declarative design?
Because they aren't trying to build a native, standalone desktop application. Declarative design makes little sense for quick and dirty developer tools that just need to directly view and modify simple data structures.