Why “egui” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
You should draw a distinction between “implementing the GUI” and “implementing OS behavior”. Flickering aside egui works mostly fine for the former; the latter falls apart on mo…
by Klonoar · Sep 1, 2026
This seems like more of a complaint about egui's choice to re-implement all the widgets from scratch than its choice to use an immediate mode API. The two are orthogonal. The IM…
by wasmperson · Sep 1, 2026
yeah once agents can spit out the egui layout the packaging story is still the hard part
by torutofu · Sep 1, 2026
Alright I downloaded the thing, just for you. * Right off the bat in the login screen, if you resize the window, it flickers * I logged in. Double clicking the top part of the w…
by bschwindHN · Sep 1, 2026
What about egui and wgpu is not native? Those are both generally what is considered running something natively. Both even mention running "natively" in their descriptions. I gue…
by inexcf · Sep 1, 2026
I was about to come here and say that egui is a terrible choice for web. Everything is rendered in a canvas, so accessibility and extensibility is thrown out of the window. Basi…
by TonyStr · Sep 1, 2026
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