>Why did you use the word Blessed? It's a fairly common idiom when talking about platform APIs. Some APIs are "blessed" in that they are the APIs that they pla

>Why did you use the word Blessed? It's a fairly common idiom when talking about platform APIs. Some APIs are "blessed" in that they are the APIs that they platform owners would like you to use and others they would like you to avoid. "Blessed" isn't wholly positive as it implies the platform plays favorites, and frequently the new blessed apis don't support all the old functionality. Here is patio11 using the idiom 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658396 It's not as nefarious as you are implying - I don't have an agenda, I've just been on HN for too long.