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I'm curious if you have come across (and recommend) any framework which lie in between Photon (Cairo) and Dear ImGui.

I'm trying to follow all thr efforts in native desktop GUI tools and am currently using Dear ImGui for something which will only be used internally.

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For me, nothing is as nice looking as Photon (resolution independent) and GPU friendly to allow 60 FPS cross-platform GUI.

It looks like you still need to roll your own.

I am currently working with Dear ImGui and found a pipeline where I put SVG icons in a true type front and can then render them resolution independent with Dear ImGui.

You might try Scenic. It’s more embedded oriented but does run on desktops using OpenGL. Also it’s new so the component library is pretty small still.

Yes, have been excitedly following Scenic since Boyd Multerer's talk about his experiments a couple of years back. Haven't tried it yet as I somehow kept putting off wrapping my head around Elixir and FP

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