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AbiWord appears to use IB (there are *.nib directories and plenty of `IBAction` and `IBOutlet` annotations), but it's kinda woven into AbiSource's own cross-platform application framework, and that actually makes it more interesting/useful as a learning resource.

Thanks for the suggestion! Any others you can think of?

[...] pushed me further towards UI in code.

Did you make any progress on this for macOS or iOS/iPadOS?

Out of total hatred of Xcode and Interface Builder I started experimenting with writing Apple UI stuff in C (calling Cocoa methods through libobjc), but there's precious few resources on doing so-called "Nibless/Xibless" development beyond the basics.

I'd love to find a decent-sized open-source macOS app written in [Objective-]C/C++ but with a good assortment of common UI paradigms, all done in code. I shudder whenever I see that dreaded .xcodeproj directory...