Favorite GUI library?

[Chris]

On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 02:31:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 04/25/2018 05:49 AM, Chris wrote:
>
> Well yea, all the hipster nerds say Google is God and Chrome is 
> what you should be using, so it must be so. ;)
>
> At the very least, I just wish there was a good choice. Mozilla 
> used to be the Burger King of browsers ("Your way, right 
> away."), but they've spent the last decade hopping on silicon 
> valley's "Our developers matter more than our users" bandwagon, 
> too. (The "Soup Nazis" of software.)

Technology, science etc. are no exception to (natural) human 
behavior: do as everybody else does, sure it's good. The problem 
is that pragmatism ("I have to write in JS, if I want to write a 
web app") turns into an ideology/relgion ("It's the best thing we 
have, if it wasn't, we'd be using something else, wouldn't we?"). 
Rationalizing irrational bs and irrationalizing the rational is a 
defense mechanism of humans. Groupthink and tribalism (hippsters) 
are part of our DNA, sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it's an 
obstacle.

I remember that Walter once wrote that whenever he saw some work 
of engineering he would have the feeling that he could do it 
better. That's why we have D and that's why we are here on this 
forum. The "sure there must be a better way" kind of thinking 
(with the benefit of hindsight) is what keeps technology 
evolving, but there will always be groupthink, tribalism, 
concentration (and abuse) of power that slows down progress...You 
could write a book about it. It's been like this, since we 
learned how to light a fire. Fire...wheel, think about how long 
it took us to get there :)