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I find it quite annoying that recently web hipstors apparently hijacked the term "API", and now everyone assume that by default "API" means something totally di
by sklogic 11y ago
I find it quite annoying that recently web hipstors apparently hijacked the term "API", and now everyone assume that by default "API" means something totally different from what it used to.
- vr3690 11y agoWhat does "API" mean to you (or originally meant) vs the hijacked term?
- sklogic 11y agoWikipedia have not succumbed to the hipstors so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interf... API is an exposed interface of any library, standalone program, etc. It's a very wide term. But stupid hipstors reduced it to their stupid understanding of a web RPC.
- jo909 11y agoYou are not wrong, but your tone is very rude. Yes, API means much more than web RPC. But the "web hipstors" are not wrong in calling their services API either. Educating people about the multiple other meanings of that word is fine, condemning people that use it for a limited (but correct) meaning seems very unnecessary to me.
- sklogic 11y agoMy tone is rightfully rude. I hate what the hipstors are turning this world into.
- seangrogg 11y agoIt is somewhat annoying when I mention that React has a "slim API" and people ask for an http endpoint...
- talles 11y agoI guess the reason is that web service don't sound as glamorous.
- goldbrick 11y ago"Hipstors" didn't hijack shit and "API" is correct usage here. The fault is with the (hypothetical?) morons who think "API" only refers to web services.
- sklogic 11y agoWhen was the last time when somebody used the words "web API"? When web monkeys say "API" they expect anyone else to understand it as the new default hipstor meaning. It is extremely annoying.