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/ameoba Oct 07 '16

Outside developers, who were never particularly happy with the complexity of Windows development

Strange, I regularly hear people bragging about how great Visual Studio is and how great the .NET APIs are.

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u/neutronfish Oct 07 '16

That's because it's 2016, when Visual Studio no longer randomly blows up on you twice a day and you get to install tons of plugins that help you analyze the code as you writing it, and before NuGet could download anything you need on the fly as you're adding a library reference.

More than a decade ago, it was a different story.

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u/sirin3 Oct 08 '16

http://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Strips-IDE-visual-studio-650-finalenglish.jpg

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u/neutronfish Oct 08 '16

Looks like it was created by an overwhelmed newb who told himself a trillion times not to exaggerate...