[newsyyswen]

Interesting that the "7 GUIs" test hasn't been mentioned in the article or comments. IMO it's not a bad starting point for thinking about the bare minimum that a GUI framework might need to support, and for evaluating how easy one is to use.

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks/

[raphlinus]

I like 7guis, and we use it as a way to think about what we're doing. However, I think the focus of 7guis tends to be much more on the higher levels of the GUI stack, particularly how to express UI logic concisely, while this blog post is much more about the lower levels - how to actually interface with the large diversity of platform capabilities that's needed for "real" GUI.