Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005

Why HN readers recommended it

Seen as the origin of the IMGUI idea that inspired Dear ImGui, recommended to anyone curious about immediate-mode UI design.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Casey Muratori

Topic

immediate mode gui

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I will also say that this is not an academic argument for me; I am in the middle of writing yet another immediate-mode GUI right now, for the game editor I am working on. Every day I am freshly glad that I am doing things …

• It’s a library for making windows, buttons, etc (called widgets), for windows Linux and macOS. If you’d like to make graphical applications though, I recommend immediate mode frameworks [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

• in 2016 Casey Muratori wrote a few words about his old video "IMMEDIATE-MODE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (2005)" -- apparently he'd been using the technique for years by then and had coined the, now commonly used, imgui acronym -- see: [LINK] and if you dive into …