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by CyberDildonics 88 days ago
A portable GUI interface is a hard problem, unless you mean "a browser window without an URL bar" and your controls are HTML/CSS components.

Says who? This has already been done over and over. Tk, FLTK, JUCE, Qt, ImGUI and many more.

Worse still, you're building an abstraction layer on top of several genuinely different systems,

Features are pretty common across linux windows and macos. Clipboards, input, files, all sorts of stuff works enough that the lowest common denominator still covers about 90% of use cases.