Looking for a simple GUI library that works with Vulkan on SDL2

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On Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at 15:21:19 UTC, Danny Arends 
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I am looking to integrate a GUI library like IMgui / Nuklear 
> into my app that uses Vulkan within SDL2 for rendering so that 
> it can run on Windows, Linux, and Android 
> (https://github.com/DannyArends/CalderaD).
>
> I've tried several different bindings to IMgui, however, none 
> seem to work and seem abandoned to me (the most recent updated 
> one 'bindbc-imgui' was updated 3 years ago).
>
> For Nuklear, the most up2date package (bindbc-nuklear) seems to 
> build, but doesn't provide a Vulkan back-end example so I'm 
> kind of stuck with how I'm supposed to integrate it (I might 
> make the effort to translate the C-code example provided in the 
> https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear repository to D)
>
> But this got me wondering, what is the state of the art GUI 
> library in D, when I am using modern OpenGL or Vulkan ? Does 
> anyone have any tips or tricks on how to achieve a basic GUI ? 
> (without writing yet another GUI library binding from scratch)

Nuklear works with D (ImportC) out of the box, you don't need any 
binding, that's what i'm using in my game



nk.c
```
// add other configs you need
#define NK_INCLUDE_VERTEX_BUFFER_OUTPUT
#define NK_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "nuklear.h"
```

app.d
```D
import nk;
```

Then the examples are 1:1, C/D is the same


Stick to simplicity, and get rewarded for it