nigh all problems in software development

[Raoul Duke]

can be addressed by adding another layer of abstraction. 

i think the javascript world, especially React, gives haskell , scala, et. al. a serious run for its money in this regard. 

[Mike Austin]

Abstract all the things! :)

On a side note, I finally made progress on my "Jira" type app acceptance criteria checklist. The hard part was syncing and race conditions updating the server and UI. That's solved by using optimistic updates in URQL.

Using "optimistic updates", the cache is updated immediately before the request is sent, so the the controlled state of the checklist doesn't lag and get out of sync.