Favorite GUI library?

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 04/27/2018 06:29 AM, Chris wrote:
> 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.
> 

That may be so, but a big part of being a participant in civilized 
society, and far more than that, being a professional, means having the 
basic will, ability and responsibility to utilize our higher-level 
cognitive functions (which we've also evolved and are baked into our 
genetics) to selectively override the baser instincts, and to discern 
when and where it's appropriate to do so.

It's a basic responsibility of being human, and it's a fundamental 
qualification of being a professional in a technical field.