Add Silky - immediate mode UI graphics#3231
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Silky - Fast UI for Nim.
Silky is an immediate mode GUI that focuses on speed above all else.
It borrows many ideas from Dear ImGui, but it is not a direct port.
Philosophy
I wanted something very, very fast. Dear ImGui is known to be one of the fastest GUI libraries out there. I studied Dear ImGui to understand what actually makes it fast. Why is it so performant?
But I didn't want to just use Dear ImGui directly. It's written in C++, a completely different language. I wanted to build something that feels more Nim-like — using templates that look the way Nim code is supposed to look.
So this is my reimplementation, or rather, reimagination of what an immediate mode GUI should look like in Nim.
I've written many other libraries like Pixie (2D graphics) and Windy (Windowing system). I wanted to use them as well because I believe they're high-quality software. But ultimately, I wanted to build my own GUI library to understand GUIs from the inside out.