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Coherent UI vs GWEN
When comparing Coherent UI vs GWEN, the Slant community recommends Coherent UI for most people. In the question“What are the best GUIs for OpenGL?” Coherent UI is ranked 1st while GWEN is ranked 5th.
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Pros
Pro Professional support
Pro Multi-platform support
Pro HTML5-based
Pro Pre-integrated with a lot of game engines
Pro Free and open source
MIT License
Pro Renderer agnostic
Can be integrated in any engine (or application) since it relies on you to provide the backend, including rendering, texture loading, etc.
Cons
Con Not Free
For revenue < $300K, you are looking at a one-time license fee of $2700 for the first platform and $4500 for subsequent platforms.
Con Heavy on performance
It's a web browser layered on top of your game.
Con Project seems dead (?)
There used to be an official website as well as proper documentation.