GUI.Forms
A custom-rendered C++ alternative to WinForms with retained controls, layout, input, painting, and native macOS output alongside PE64/Wine proving builds.
Active system program · native interfaces
GUI.Forms
and Web.Forms
Keep the convenient language of web layout. Replace the browser with an owned tree of typed native controls.
Current question
How much familiar web-shaped authoring can compile into a small, inspectable native control system without losing native behavior?
Two layers, one direction
Web.Forms
A strict browser-valid subset of HTML and CSS becomes a typed intermediate representation, native descriptors, and a GUI.Forms control tree.
No browser in the shipped program
The browser is an authoring and preview surface. The compiled application contains native controls and the owned runtime, not Chromium or a web view.
File Manager
The interface system is being exercised inside a real local-computing application rather than a catalogue of isolated widgets.
What exists
The program already includes a strict parser, typed intermediate representation, native descriptor output, retained control trees, AppKit hosting, and Win32-oriented proving paths. The next work is not to declare web compatibility. It is to enlarge the bounded language only where each addition compiles into a clear native behavior.