I'd like to request a specific example. Functional can be really tricky to debug if not done well, so I'm skeptical that functional is a "magic fix". For the va

I'd like to request a specific example. Functional can be really tricky to debug if not done well, so I'm skeptical that functional is a "magic fix". For the vast majority of office CRUD [1], the way Visual Basic (classic) did things was KISS and intuitive: you filled in the event snippet and didn't have to worry about the deeper guts of the GUI system. One should only have to fiddle with guts for special needs. [1] Ignoring web-scale and "enterprise". I don't think it's possible to optimize a stack for smaller/middle end and larger end at the same time. One end has to take a hit.