ScenicFramework/scenic

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2055 stars · 138 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Scenic is a client application UI framework for Elixir/Erlang/OTP that renders 2D retained-mode interfaces directly on top of OpenGL. It targets fixed-screen connected IoT devices (especially via Nerves) while also supporting portable desktop applications across macOS, Ubuntu, and embedded Linux.

Use cases

• build a UI for an embedded IoT device with a fixed screen
• create a kiosk or appliance interface in Elixir
• write a portable 2D desktop application without a browser or JavaScript
• run a fault-tolerant self-healing device UI on Nerves/Linux
• package reusable UI controls as Hex packages
• remotely access and control a device's interface over a low-bandwidth connection

When to choose

• you are building Elixir/OTP applications for fixed-screen IoT or embedded devices
• you want a small dependency footprint (just OTP and OpenGL) with no browser or JavaScript
• you need fault-tolerant, self-healing UIs backed by OTP supervision trees
• you prefer retained-mode 2D graphics with game-style transform matrices

When to avoid

• you need HTML, CSS, or web-based rendering
• you need 3D graphics
• you prefer immediate-mode rendering
• your team does not work in Elixir/Erlang

Facets

framework · maturity active

ui-components graphics gui frontend-framework cross-platform iot embedded-systems graphics developer-tools embedded iot elixir cross-platform elixir retained-mode-ui nerves opengl 2d-graphics otp macos linux

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