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I have a feeling people like to hate on CSS because making GUIs is hard and tedious work in general and introducing bugs is way easier than fixing them. And si

I have a feeling people like to hate on CSS because making GUIs is hard and tedious work in general and introducing bugs is way easier than fixing them. And since many applications nowadays run in your browser, people end up having to use CSS, thus getting blamed for the general pain it is to make a good GUI. I have used native GUI kits like Tk and Qt and found myself fiddling just about as much as I would with CSS. YMMV of course.

dmitriid 6y ago
YMMV but, almost every single GUI framework outside the web has: - virtual lists - customizable controls (including selects) - easy solutions for layouts of any complexity (CSS got flexbox in 2015, Qt had it in early 2000s) - a plethora of complex components out of the box (and most complex controls are rather trivial to implement yourself): date pickers, modals and dialog boxes, tree views, splitters, you name it. Yes, building GUIs is hard. But building GUIs on the web is approaching impossible. There's a reason why most GUI frameworks on the web only manage to implement the same paltry set of components: buttons, badges, inputs. Very rarely there's a date picker and a table. And... that's about it.