FLTK
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6recommend
1warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Oct 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“at first glance, seems simpler”
“Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.”
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“QT, GTK, FLTK, and friends handle scaling correctly”
“FLTK dropped a new version last year after a gap of 13 years”
“FLTK was a pleasure to use (for uncomplicated software)”
Caveats and dissent
“The change from FLTK 1.3.X to 1.4.X breaks many things in Dillo.”
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All comments 12
“I did manage to get FLTK statically linked”
“a homemade FLTK based editor with just basic syntax coloring”
FLTK is great at being fast and light, that’s about it. It’s kind of cumbersome to use but honestly does what it says on the tin. Highly recommend for smaller use cases but can’t imagine using on a large project. I used the rust bindings which are well maintained.
“at first glance, seems simpler”
“Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.”
“QT, GTK, FLTK, and friends handle scaling correctly”
“FLTK's base widget class[0] is much smaller at around 500 lines of code”
“Since then it's got up to 1.4.4, and they're working on FLTK 1.5.”
“FLTK dropped a new version last year after a gap of 13 years”
“The change from FLTK 1.3.X to 1.4.X breaks many things in Dillo.”
“FLTK was a pleasure to use (for uncomplicated software)”
“Nope, it uses https://www.fltk.org/”