This is pretty awesome. I wish that more APIs were better designed, though I think that the best APIs come out when you can iterate on their design with enough

This is pretty awesome. I wish that more APIs were better designed, though I think that the best APIs come out when you can iterate on their design with enough flexibility to remove the pain points and common questions. The author gets it exactly right on the topic of Java's GUI APIs, which are world-renowned for their terribleness.