[AlienRobot]

That's true. Events are the WORST thing about GUI programming. They're so convenient and so undebuggable it almost feels like a trap.

Ironically, in most cases events are only used by one object, but you always want to consider the possibility that two objects will want to observe the same event, so now you need an entire event dispatching class, and then you'll want observable properties, and the nail on the coffin is going to be observable lists. When you reach that point, one event triggers another, which changes a property, triggering another event, and so on and so on. You are 5 layers deep into event callbacks. The call tree just has the same "callCallbacks()" method over and over again.

Bugs start happening because of the order in which callbacks are called becomes important, so now you need a way to give some callbacks priority over others, or make them happen after all normal callbacks were called. One callback destroys an object which has callback on the event that destroyed it, so you're going to need a wrapper around your callbacks that gets notified when callback's object is destroyed to change its reference to null in order to avoid executing code on the destroyed object if this happens while iterating the callbacks in the event dispatcher. Sometimes calling callbacks in wrong order is a performance hit, when it doesn't just get stuck into an infinite loop and you run out of stack.

I wonder if there is GUI programming paradigm that solves all of this or that you can call the "best" one. Maybe it's reactivity, maybe not. Who knows.