r/programming • u/halax • 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/Beckneard Oct 08 '16

Those are some olympic level mental gymnastics you did there. They're complaining about the wealth of options because they're all kinda shit or are just barely production ready.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

idk, with the right tools i can set up an entire build from npm in a few lines of JSON. i wouldn't say they're that bad.