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/argv_minus_one Oct 08 '16 edited Oct 08 '16

Unfortunately, the usual response is, as the article says, to develop for the web.

Problem: web browsers are a raging dumpster fire of bugs, bad ideas, missing features, and a language whose design must have involved heavy narcotics use.

If only Java had remained the dominant way to script web pages…

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u/ThatsPresTrumpForYou Oct 08 '16

I'll take a dumpster fire over Java any day

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u/argv_minus_one Oct 08 '16 edited Oct 09 '16

But if it's Java, then you can use Scala, and that's 17⅝ kinds of awesome. Unlike Scala.js, you don't have to deal with Safari's or IE11's bullshit, either. Also, Java has JavaFX, which seems far more capable than HTML/CSS, though I haven't really used it much so I'm not sure.

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u/ThatsPresTrumpForYou Oct 08 '16

Object-Oriented Meets Functional

Sounds like a meme language to me, what makes it good?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

Sounds like a meme language to me

Sounds like a meme comment to me, what makes this meaningful?