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This article is a list of connectors that doesn't go into much detail into how each changed the world. The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as
by Arainach 6y ago
This article is a list of connectors that doesn't go into much detail into how each changed the world.
The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as late as the article suggested - is also sufficiently wrong to put everything else written in the article into doubt.
- hedberg10 6y agoIt is an ad. It worked. Don't expect a car advertisement to teach you how an engine actually works.
- jbindel 6y agoI agree. The author laughably claims APIs are how applications take to each other and implies they are necessarily remote or on the Internet. Web APIs are one kind of API, but so are various C Library interfaces.