Will Crichton

What makes graphical user interfaces fundamentally challenging to implement, even for experienced practitioners? Please send me your favorite papers, talks, blog posts on this subject! (see caveats below)

So this was the first article I went for, and I think that only 4/9 of these really strike at the problem I'm focusing on: programming in terms of subroutines; handling all possible inputs; poor language support; and difficulty of modularization.

The rest seem kind of orthogonal: that we should be developing iteratively and not using the waterfall method; that regression testing is especially hard; that frameworks have thick manuals—all of this is important, but ultimately not about challenges in expressivity.

Some of his points also seem like sailed ships. He argues that UIs, being multithreaded, are subject to all the challenges of concurrent software—but many Web UIs are functionally single-threaded, and even those with worker processes don't face the usual data consistency problems