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Isn't UIKit Apple's framework. Probably time for a new name.

What if he doesn't know about Object C at all? Different domain, I think.

I dunno. A different domain would be like if I called my new bluegrass band, Uikit.

This name does sort of confuse. Although I don't know how more generic you can get then, "User Interface Kit", although the capitalization of Uikit is a little awkward.

Not that generic – Apple uses "kit" as a suffix for most of their frameworks, and I don't know any other large frameworks that do that (could be wrong on this, of course, but it does seem an "Apple thing" at this point).

I can think of 2 much older examples of 'kit', as a part of toolkit, in a UI framework name:

* GTK

* Tk of Perl/Tk

NeXTSTEP (macOS and iOS's predecessor) predates Tk's the use of the term kit by 3 years and GTK's by almost 10.

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