vurtun/nuklear

Health v2 · maintenance only

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13988 stars · 1107 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Nuklear is a minimal, single-header immediate mode graphical user interface toolkit written in ANSI C (C89) with no dependencies and no default render backend. This original repository is abandoned; all development has moved to the Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear organization.

Use cases

• add a gui to a c or c++ application
• embed a lightweight ui toolkit in a game or tool
• build an immediate mode interface with full memory control
• render ui on any backend since only draw commands are output
• create a portable gui without pulling in dependencies

When to choose

• you need a tiny, dependency-free, embeddable immediate mode gui in C
• you want full control over memory, rendering, and platform integration
• you target C89 or highly constrained environments

When to avoid

• you want a maintained project - use Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear instead
• you need a batteries-included gui with default rendering and window handling
• you want retained-mode widgets or native platform look-and-feel

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

ui-components gui cross-platform developer-tools cross-platform cpp c immediate-mode single-header c89 imgui embeddable-ui no-dependencies game-development

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