Anthony Tietjen

Building desktop GUI apps that work consistently across different operating systems presents several technical challenges. Dear ImGui combined with Glium and Winit provides a technical stack for cross-platform development. ImGui's immediate mode architecture regenerates the interface each frame, while Glium handles OpenGL context management across Windows, macOS, and Linux and Winit handles window creation, and input processing. Please note, the Glium library is no longer under active development. Refer to Glium post-mortem. This post examines a basic "Hello World" implementation using ImGui, Glium and Winit on the three major desktop platforms. The application demonstrates a simple counter interface with color customization and framerate display. Below, you'll find screenshots of the application running on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Each screenshot is paired with the corresponding OS task manager and file explorer, showing memory, CPU utilization and file si...

Building desktop GUI apps that work consistently across different operating systems presents several technical challenges. Dear ImGui combined with GLFW provides a robust technical stack for cross-platform development. ImGui's immediate mode architecture regenerates the interface each frame, while GLFW handles window creation, input processing, and OpenGL context management across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This post examines a basic "Hello World" implementation using ImGui and GLFW on the three major desktop platforms. The application demonstrates a simple counter interface with color customization and framerate display. Below, you'll find screenshots of the application running on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Each screenshot is paired with the corresponding OS task manager and file explorer, showing memory, CPU utilization and file size on different operating systems. These comparisons provide insight into how the same codebase performs across different desktop e...

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