regolith-ui/docs/dd.md

Retained Mode GUI project

Hard requirements:

• Must be written in C
• Must be RETAINED MODE with a document structure that loads from disk
• Must be versitile and independent so it can be used for Games, Desktop App GUI, etc.
• Must be easy to initalize
• Must have a friendly document language (My first thought is Lua as the documenting language)
• Must have full Lua API for realtime changes and modability
• Must be NATIVE and not use a webview or web backend at all
• Used for NATIVE Desktop GUI applications as well as GUI for games
• Must compile to native Linux, Windows, Mac, etc, as well as Web (WASM)

Medium requirements:

• Use an existing project to calculate layouts and render commands

Soft requirements:

• Bring your own rendering/platform backend (otherwise, just use OpenGL and SDL3)