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bonessslast Wednesday at 7:48 AM0 repliesview on HN

In addition to the underlying domain (and I agree, it’s no coincidence that windowed GUI widgets are common in in OOP textbooks), there’s also overlapping spectrums of language expressiveness and object-orientedness to consider.

The principle of least surprise, bad evil and scary techniques in general might be the orthodox, efficient and intuitive for maintainers in context. Templates in GUI frameworks versus business apps, for example.