Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
Why CEREBRO kept it
GUI framework for Ada, rising tool
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A modern GUI library for Ada. Adi2 gives you a real widget toolkit with the niceties developers expect from a modern UI stack — CSS-like styling with live reload, declarative XML layouts, animations, SVG and Lottie graphics, internationalization, and asset bundling — implemented natively in Ada on top of SDL3. Status: in production use, but not yet a stable release — APIs may still change between versions. - Style your UI like the web. Selectors, pseudo-classes, parts, transitions, gradients, box shadows — all in a familiar .csssyntax. Edit the file, save, see the change. No recompile during d
Community take
Ada is out of fashion, XML is the wrong choice for modern GUI layout, and the implementation has significant code-quality issues (repetition, DRY violations); Rust/Dioxus offers a better alternative.
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