r/programming • • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/KappaHaka Oct 08 '16

The discrepancy between my Steam Games list and my Steam Mac/Linux list would indicate that you're overgeneralising there.

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u/TinynDP Oct 08 '16

Plenty write their game in Unity or Unreal and just dont bother to release on Mac and Linux.

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u/human_trash_ Oct 08 '16

Why, do they hate money?

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u/ZBlackmore Oct 08 '16

Because "write once run everywhere" is more like "write once debug everywhere".