Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software application has become so difficult that most people just use a progressive web app which is 100x slower than is possible. Are the best options for GUI applications in 2025 really Java Swing and Qt?
Putting pixels on the screen isn't difficult. Putting them on a screen across hardware in a performant manner is the difficult part because it is difficult.
