> GUI frameworks are much worse today than twenty years ago
GUI and Web frameworks seem to change too quickly to make it worth the while to study them. Despite advances in software engineering elsewhere, frameworks in these two areas have become more complex instead of more simple.
Rapid pace of change, technical debt, proliferation of options even for one language.
The good news is there's plenty of work to be done here to clean things up. The bad news is this isn't something that one can do alone (as much as I like Linux, on the desktop applications lack uniformity much more than on MacOS X or Windows).
The solution? Smart app developers build the business logic as API and try to maximally decouple the UI from the business logic. But this doesn't work well for all kinds of applications: e.g. it's hard to do for a WYSIWYG word processor, whereas it may be very easy for an image format converter.
GUI and Web frameworks seem to change too quickly to make it worth the while to study them. Despite advances in software engineering elsewhere, frameworks in these two areas have become more complex instead of more simple.
Rapid pace of change, technical debt, proliferation of options even for one language.
The good news is there's plenty of work to be done here to clean things up. The bad news is this isn't something that one can do alone (as much as I like Linux, on the desktop applications lack uniformity much more than on MacOS X or Windows).
The solution? Smart app developers build the business logic as API and try to maximally decouple the UI from the business logic. But this doesn't work well for all kinds of applications: e.g. it's hard to do for a WYSIWYG word processor, whereas it may be very easy for an image format converter.