> UI is hard in the way that art is hard > Backend is hard in the way that building a skyscraper is hard ... Managing complexity is really the problem there.

> UI is hard in the way that art is hard > Backend is hard in the way that building a skyscraper is hard ... Managing complexity is really the problem there. UI is hard exactly for this same reason: managing complexity. There are a lot of great great tools and abstractions for back-end work, but UI has too long suffered with same old OO-oriented approaches that GUI frameworks dictate. They are quite bad for managing the complexity.