>One approach, then, is to present a common API abstraction over top of these platform APIs For those interested in a similar topic, but with an opinion/taste

>One approach, then, is to present a common API abstraction over top of these platform APIs For those interested in a similar topic, but with an opinion/taste cursor much more tilted towards pathological simplicity than towards feature completeness, I've been working on an API to abstract away the most basic features of GUI libraries, so as not to actually depend on any of them while still being able to make basic GUIs: https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.md https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.m... It's not in version 1.0 yet, but should still remain quite stable (or even frozen, or... dead ;) in the future. Before doing so I'm waiting on finishing the toolkit I'm building on top of it (which might involve also finishing the apps I'm building on top of the toolkit ;).