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Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem
FORGE: A File-Oriented Reflective Graphical Environment What is FORGE? FORGE is a language-independent, OS-independent, and GUI-independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem. Instead of defining a programming interface as a set of functions, the FORGE API is a set of filing operations.
By keeping GUI resources behind a user/kernel boundary, an application is not limited to running in a single process — it can exist as a collection of cooperating programs — or for that matter, a shell script. That creates a centered, minimally sized, untitled window with the text "Hello world" at the upper left. More advanced users will still find shell scripting convenient for prototyping Fornaxis programs before rewriting in another language.
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