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Ask HN: What are some of the best APIs ever designed?

• colesantiago 5y ago
  stripe
• assttoasstmgr 5y ago
  From a backwards-compatibility standpoint, WinAPI hands down. A while back I found a game from 1993 which I pulled off floppy disk. It is a 16-bit executable that was originally designed for Win 3.1. To my surprise, it runs fine on (32-bit) Windows 10. With sound and everything. I have Mac applications from three years ago that will not run on the current macOS. I have Linux applications that broke and/or became crashy during a routine system update which updated some libraries and required a recompile to restore stability.