# ppmpreetham/BUI

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.7 out of 10 — Peaking
- Stars: 2,228 total · +7 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:28 UTC, ≈ 121 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-08-26 · Last push: 2026-11-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI · Homepage: https://bui.preetham.top · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ppmpreetham/BUI

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 84
- Issues and pull requests: 25
- Watchers: 11
- Average over the last week: 336 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: v0.5.0 (2026-11-08)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-11 … 2026-11-09: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 121, 1543, 437, 124, 7

## Magnitude by day, last 4 days

11-06 8.4, 11-07 9.1, 11-08 7.6, 11-09 5.7

## Hacker News

- Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI — 735 points, 290 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389333

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 01:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.