have you worked with GUIs much? complex interactive UIs take a surprising amount of code, doubly so if what you're doing isn't covered well by your platform/too

have you worked with GUIs much? complex interactive UIs take a surprising amount of code, doubly so if what you're doing isn't covered well by your platform/toolkit's native inputs. i'm working on a webapp with a scheduling thing and even drawing a nice-but-not-interactive day schedule is a bunch of work. consider a day view that lays out overlapping events next to each other: Dec 8 ----------- 9 10 AAA 11 AAA BBB 12 AAA BBB 13 BBB 14 CCC BBB 15 CCC 16 17 DDDDDDD 18 DDDDDDD 19 like, even laying out those boxes takes a bunch of code. and then you need interactivity, the actual "app" part - you want drag-n-drop that snaps to columns and switches you to another day if you drag it to the side, and selections, and menus, and hovery-popupy things, and undo, and so on... it adds up quickly