I mean, sure, if all you want is a couple UI elements and zero control over how they look or their layout, most existing GUI toolkits are incredibly over-compli

I mean, sure, if all you want is a couple UI elements and zero control over how they look or their layout, most existing GUI toolkits are incredibly over-complicated. But you only want those basics for, like, a minute or two. Or to show a couple buttons and nothing else. Then you realize how incredibly restricting that is, and how impossible it is to make something nice and not just functional, and you discover the problem is bigger than you thought it was. Shoes gets pretty close perhaps? http://shoesrb.com/ http://shoesrb.com/ But even a tiny glance will show it's vastly more complicated than the proposed API here, because the proposed API is so inadequate you can't even say "put X near Y".