Imgui-React-Runtime: Natively Compiled Apps with React+javascript+dear Imgui
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The post showcases an experimental project compiling React and JavaScript to native code for building GUI applications with Dear ImGui, sparking interest in its technical feasibility and potential applications.
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about 2 months ago
An unofficial experiment to compile React/JS to native code and drive Dear ImGUI using JSX. Resulting MacOS apps are under 6MB, without dependencies, no JS source, no interpreter, no JIT warmup.
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