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There's no web renderer at all. The UI is native AppKit (NSTableView, NSOutlineView, NSPanel, etc.) driven from C#/.NET via P/Invoke. It uses real Cocoa controls, not HTML/CSS in a Webview. The app doesn't phone home except for checking if there is a new version (and only does this in the registered version) and the only information sent is the current version number.

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Thank you for supplying all that info. I wasn't implying your app did anything nefarious, just the kinds of things I would like to see on an App Nutrition label. That is cool that you wrote it in .NET, any hiccups with that stack? I did some MacDev using Lua like 15 years ago, it worked out pretty well.

No worries. There were some minor initial setup/hiccups in the beginning of the project but overall I'm very happy with using .NET with Native AOT.

Could it be compiled with GNUStep?

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