VUI and GUI Being Left in Continually Unusable States

[Wajinn]

It is understandable that V is in beta and going through some rapid changes. Many of which are good, as recently there has been a massive 10X decrease in issues for V, over an already good open to close ratio. However, both VUI and GUI have been rendered near useless for months. A short span can arguably be more acceptable, but long time spans (in the months) give the appearance of abandonment, disregard of users, or excessive instability. None of those can be expected to inspire confidence or loyalty in many users. Those modules have simply not been updated to keep up with changes in newer versions of V.

Maybe VUI and GUI should be included in the testing and changes, so that their examples (or at least some of them) will run as expected.

Update: medvednikov has acknowledged the issue (at UI), which is good news. For many fans and supporters, there can be greater patience, knowing that the core developers are working on fixes and keeping the other essential modules in sync.

[Wajinn]

Sadly, though both VUI and GUI were updated, they are still significantly unusable (as of May 11, 2026). At least on Linux, others can chime in about OSes they are using.

For VUI, many examples now work, but not all. This of course can be problematic, depending on what a person wanted to do, if that is related to the non-working examples. There is also some type of terrible window resizing issue (that other UI toolkits do not have) that can create widget distortion and can lead to the conclusion that VUI is unusable. At least on Linux.

Edit: GUI examples are working (as of check on May 22, 2026).

[medvednikov]

I'm on it, they broke after the recent 1k+ bug fixes in a big batch.

[medvednikov]

ui and gui tests pass ci now:

https://github.com/vlang/v/actions/runs/25711043707/job/75491158119

[Wajinn]

Good to see progress on this. Hopefully leads to increased usability for users. Thanks.