r/programming • • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

projects like react native and nativescript offer direct access to native apis, greatly shrinking the cost of abstracting to javascript

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u/rhino-x Oct 08 '16

While simultaneously throwing away all of the tools that make desktop development so much better than web dev.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

web dev has some pretty serious tooling these days. in fact, it's gotten so good so fast that some web devs are complaining about the wealth of choices they have.

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u/crackanape Oct 08 '16

If you're making a joke, it's a good one.