There’s a great primer in the readme about “immediate mode” guis[^1]. Most of us are so used to “retained mode” guis, I bet it hasn’t occurred to us there are other paradigms. It didn’t occur to me.

[^1]: which I struggled to get a link to because the links on the website aren’t html tags … it’s kind of interesting because it underscores why browsers suck and why browsers are great … they are standardized and designed for easy interop.

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