The amoco user interface is meant to display informations about a binary in a much more useful way than what can be shown on a simple terminal. Ideally, we want to allow rich graphic display without losing the ability to develop programs that access all parts of the framework API.

One common approach is to have a GUI application that has the ability to run "scripts" when required, either loaded from a file or from a dedicated GUI widget that provides interactive input/output from/to the user. This approach favors user interaction based on the predefined fonctionalities available from the graphical interface. Tools like IDA Pro and Ghidra both follow this approach efficiently. In amoco we wanted the graphical interface to be just a way of displaying information obtained from programming the analysis of a binary.

Running the framework inside a graphical user interface is to limit possible actions to a very small set of predefined operations.