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Intentionally ostracizing entire developer communities is counter-productive. Where APIs are concerned, all hackers are created equal, regardless of language. T
by jonmarkgo 14y ago
Intentionally ostracizing entire developer communities is counter-productive. Where APIs are concerned, all hackers are created equal, regardless of language. That is, in my mind, the beauty of APIs - they can be accessed equally regardless of your chosen development environment or language.
- dirtyvagabond 14y agoThanks jonmarkgo, good point. Not intending to ostracize anyone here, in fact quite the opposite. Working hard to be as inclusive as we possibly can. 8-]
- prospero 14y agoI doubt they actually think a Haskell client is going to be one that "matters". It's a fun bit of software, take it for what it is. Also, if you google "factual api", you get http://developer.factual.com/display/docs/Factual+Developer+APIs+Version+3 http://developer.factual.com/display/docs/Factual+Developer+... as the top result. Unless you're faulting them for not releasing wrappers in all languages simultaneously, I don't really understand your point.
- jonmarkgo 14y agoSorry, I didn't mean to say that they didn't have libraries available in other languages (they clearly state that they do in the blog post) - I was mostly just commenting on the tone of the post and how it might ostracize certain developer communities.
- prospero 14y agoIf they already have support for Ruby, PHP, Java, Objective-C, and server-side Javascript, then a post that claims Haskell and Clojure are the languages that "really matter" can probably be safely assumed to be a joke.
- lucian1900 14y agoHow are they ostracising anyone? For each language, they are praising it, offering a nice idiomatic API library and following common distribution practice (PyPI, clojars, cabal).