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by ghtbircshotbe 250 days ago
HTML+CSS+JavaScript is already a massive framework and layer of abstraction. Try creating a GUI in C++ without using any libraries.
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> Try creating a GUI in C++ without using any libraries.

This is more or less my response to anyone who complains about CSS; just consider the alternatves. CSS is, by an order of magnitude, the most powerful, flexible, accessible, and maintainable paradigm for UI development in existence. In some cases you're talking hundreds of native LOC to implement what a single CSS rule in a class can do.