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Comment by bschwindHN

Please don't ship immediate mode GUIs to normal users. They are good for adding UI to a game or throwing together some quick internal tool, but you'll quickly run into tons of limitations, inconsistent behavior for the platform, and difficult styling.

> creating user interfaces for mobile and the desktop, avoiding the platform bound and often complex native toolkits

Especially for mobile, just use the native toolkit, or something that uses the native toolkit for its backend. I'm sick of using apps that don't use the native toolkit, they almost always have worse performance and just behave in weird ways. Even flutter is guilty of this, and that has all the manpower of a google team behind it.

A mobile app using immediate mode, written in _Go_, just sounds like a recipe for an app that will never function as well as its equivalent written specifically for the platform.

Stop sacrificing the experience of your users for your own personal developer experience.

parent bschwindHN 2 years ago

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