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This is really interesting. I especially like the use of actors.
If you think of the Win32 API message loop then you can kind of think of each program and GUI as a mesh of independent actors with inboxes that communicate user GUI events to backend server that does CPU work or network work in the background.
I think this is an easy to understand architecture. If you think of it as MVC but what would be a method call in MVC is actually a cross thread event queue between server threads and client GUI threads.
Where GUIs get complicated and hard for me to read the code for is all the state management and complexity of components of the GUI itself. I wouldn't want to be tasked with implementing Qt or GTK.
The actor idea reminds me of programmatic "agents" or bots that work on your behalf on a schedule or in response to events (messages) such as Huginn.
The idea of plugging GUI components together so they interoperate is really interesting. COM and XPCOM is an example of this in practice for communication between applications (and the GUI) The DOM is an example of it too! You can insert arbitrary blocks in Notion or Obsidian or COM objects in Word documents.
https://github.com/huginn/huginn
I like the process viewer on the right hand side. Would be nice to be capable of visualisation what the applications are doing.