maybe We Should Enable More Uncertain Mobile App Programming
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jerry Ajay, Nick DiRienzo, Oliver A. Kennedy, Anudipa Maiti, Anandatirtha Nandugudi, Sriram Shantharam, Jinghao Shi, Guru Prasad Srinivasa, Lukasz Ziarek · 2015
One of the reasons programming mobile systems is so hard is the wide variety of environments a typical app encounters at runtime. As a result, in many cases only post-deployment user testing can determine the right algorithm to use, the rate at which something should happen, or when an app should attempt to conserve energy. Programmers should not be forced to make these choices at development time. Unfortunately, languages leave no way for programmers to express and structure uncertainty about runtime conditions, forcing them to adopt ineffective or fragile ad-hoc solutions.