[mst]

> You’ll spend inordinate amounts of time researching the “right” way to do things only to find that there really isn’t one, but instead several ways with varying levels of wrongness with different trade offs.

From what I've heard Android is unusually bad for this but this particular sentence resonates with me in terms of basically everything ... though that may be because I do a bunch of deployment/ops stuff which is generally entirely made out of "choose your own petard to be hoist by later"

[mntmoss]

The best-case end result of this instability, of course, is the "double interface" - an interface abstraction on top that talks in terms of the domain problem, and then a second layer to convert the lower level interfaces into that abstraction.

Unfortunately GUI is particularly fiddly and difficult to write the double interface for, since you get a "thousand words is one picture" problem: it doesn't reduce well to text.