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What does "API" mean to you (or originally meant) vs the hijacked term?
by vr3690 11y ago
What 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.