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I think it's interesting to consider that, increasingly, third-party APIs are becoming first-party tools. While your interpretation would also be correct, if th
by keithwhor 6y ago
I think it's interesting to consider that, increasingly, third-party APIs are becoming first-party tools. While your interpretation would also be correct, if the API is doing the generating [0], is that one line of code or "an integration"? What's the delineation between the two if the APIs behave as a native developer might expect a package to behave? Stripe famously launched with the "7 lines of code" tagline. :) [1]
[0] https://autocode.com/lib/qrcode/generate/ https://autocode.com/lib/qrcode/generate/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902696
- Akronymus 6y agoTo me, it seems to mean something like "you only need to add 7 lines of code to use it" While I still kind of disagree with your title, I get where you are coming from now.