justrach/nanoui
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What it is
A Zig toolkit for desktop apps with two kinds of window: native UI written in Zig and drawn by nanoui on the GPU (Metal on macOS), with flexbox layout, text, controls and testable views, or a web page shown in the system webview with a generated JavaScript client for calling Zig.
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Zig developers building desktop applications who want native GPU-drawn UI or a webview frontend
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