>I want to build something once, and ideally use it for the rest of my life (or maybe 20-50 years to start off) without having to worry about having to update s

>I want to build something once, and ideally use it for the rest of my life (or maybe 20-50 years to start off) without having to worry about having to update something or other or risk losing something important down the line. I can't be willing to build personal stuffs on unstable or proprietary grounds either. To me it's like building your house on an iceberg or in a prison. For server side software we already have some relatively safe grounds in that regard, but for GUI I only know of frameworks with no clean API to abstract away their implementations, and which come with much dependencies and idiosyncrasies that can be hard to implement efficiently on top of other libraries. OpenGL is an API, but it's complex (designed for efficient 3D) and doesn't cover everything (windowing, mouse/keyboard events, basic primitives, text, images, etc.). That's why I designed BWD: https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.md https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.m... Currently I'm building a toolkit on top of it (BWD just has a graphics (canvas), it doesn't have "components").