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I'm a massive egui fan but I don't think you properly compare an immediate mode framework to the retained mode behemoths of Flutter or React Native.

Mobile is ruled out. Some very basic things people take for granted like flex layouts are also incredibly hard to do right.

They have different use cases. That said, I love egui and have built a bunch of in-house tooling with it, such a joy to work with and uses barely any resources despite being immediate mode.



Actually I wouldn't call Flutter and React retained mode. They're basically fancy immediate mode. That's why React is so productive.

Flutter looks to be the same. Even google's docs say (paraphrasing) "isn't doing the layout every frame slow? No, because the runtime is optimized".

Not suggesting using egui btw, just off handed mention. :)




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