[samsquire]

Would love to talk more.

You're right, users are asynchronous event sources. I feel UI development is very hard to read and complicated to implement complicated features.

Turning desired behaviours into code is pretty difficult for me.

I have written a few Java Swing apps and an Electron app. I also tried to use Qt but I wasn't a C++ developer so that didn't go so well.

There is a good article that the mouse is a database. The idea that the mouse creates data that can be reacted to. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2169076