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> The project's goal is to provide a platform-agnostic interface — without the generation of the graphical user interface.

As someone who is relatively ignorant about this kind of thing...what does that above quote ^ mean?

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It means that it implements the logic to determine what needs to be updated from one UI state to another UI state but it leaves the concrete implementation on how to create, delete, move, insert, and update UI interface elements to the users.

If I'm not mistaken I think the idea is something like React, provide an API to describe interfaces that can have different platform specific bindings written for them.

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