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by jaybeavers 724 days ago
Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex.

Styles and inheritance and asynchronicity have turned what could be a simple approach into an inscrutable problem.
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aristofun 724 days ago
Aren’t you one of developers of android?

That would explain a lot :)

Very dangerous wishful thinking.

Ui can only be as straightforward as a user wants it to be - if all user wants is pressing couple buttons to open couple windows - then yes, it is straightforward.

Asynchronicity is not a problem it is one of the many solutions to help alleviate the problem.

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