New ask Hacker News story: Why is GUI programming so hard?

Why is GUI programming so hard?
2 by tripleo1 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Some smart guy (may or may not be Rich Hickey) was allegedly heard to have said about GUI programming, "I don't do that kind of stuff." Over the years, I have observed the fact that some /many things about GUI is/are just unnecessarily stupid. See Jgoodies-binding, and more recently elm-lang and htmx for unexamples of this. btw, rip