One feature I am always missing when programming in a non-interpreted language like C is the ability to interactively execute the program without writing an entire mechanism for that. This "interpreted when typed"-feature proves itself very useful in python for instance. Although it might be too hard if not impossible to make a "compiled and executed when typed"-feature for C it is possible to just give the user the ability to access a huge amount of the functionality of let's say an object. It's just a lot of work to make all the properties accessible and you might blemish the looks of your actually ui-independent class. A workaround can be applied to lessen the damage. It would consist of just a single function that the class has to implement. That function exports all the functionality (options) to a ui-system which takes care of the command handling and user interaction. This works to the point that it can actually completely replace the ui-design-process (well the ui-system still has to be initialized, 3 lines of code). The work to make the C++ standard library ui-accessible could be taken from the user in advance. As I don't know if any of that is of any relevance to the boost community I will leave it at that. It just seems like a big lack to me that the boost-libraries still have no means of user interaction. If there is any interest in the above I have a working sample which demonstrates what words can only poorly describe. Thanks