ppmpreetham/BUI
- Total stars
- 2,228
- Today
- +7since 00:02 UTC
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Blender's GPU Accelerated UI, Decoupled from it's original codebase. Supports Rust, Python, JS, Lua, C & C++. Twice as good as GPUI
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About the project
BUI is a C UI library extracted from Blender's interface: its widgets, interaction rules and look are usable from Python, Rust, JavaScript/React, C, C++ and Dear ImGui. It lets you build fast native desktop apps with the Blender interface artists already know.
Useful for
- Run an existing tkinter app on BUI without changing its code
- Build panels, sliders and PieMenu for an artist tool in Python
- Embed Dear ImGui in a BUI window with Blender's theme via one build flag
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 9, 2026, 01:38 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–01:28: 2221 → 2228 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +121 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- Hacker News: “Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI” — 735 points, 2 days ago.
- About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 2,228.
Daily measurements · UTC
- November 2, 2026
- 1
- November 3, 2026
- 0
- November 4, 2026
- 2
- November 5, 2026
- 121
- November 6, 2026
- 1,543
- November 7, 2026
- 437
- November 8, 2026
- 124
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 1,543 · November 6, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 9, 2026, 01:37 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 2,228
- Today
- +7 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:28 UTC, ≈ 121 by evening
- Forks
- 84
- Issues and pull requests
- 25
- Watchers
- 11
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v0.5.0 · November 8, 2026
- Created
- August 26, 2026
- Last push
- November 8, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI735 points, November 6, 2026
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- November 9, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 8, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 7, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 6, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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