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This app uses objc_msgSend, which feels a lot like cheating, but if you simply want to avoid using nibs (while still using Objective-C or Swift), check out my NiblessMenu project and my "Working without a nib" blog series.

https://github.com/lapcat/NiblessMenu

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/working-without-a-nib-pa...

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I just Ed to say thank you for keeping your nibless posts from 2007 online. Handy for those of us doing a bit of retro computing on Tiger and Leopard. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/developing-for-tiger-an...

You can probably do a "true" pure C application (as in no Cocoa at all and no linking to objc-runtime) by dropping down to the CoreGraphics layer, but a lot of it is undocumented.

There's also Carbon (which I always assumed directly hit the same underlying quartz apis), but that's long deprecated and iirc never supported the UI portions in 64-bit

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