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I hear from a source very high up in PayPal that a large part of their codebase is evolving at this point and that in the next couple months, we should be seein
by primitivesuave 13y ago
I hear from a source very high up in PayPal that a large part of their codebase is evolving at this point and that in the next couple months, we should be seeing a wide range of developer-friendly changes. I'm not advocating PayPal nor do I have any financial interest in PayPal, just pointing out that they acknowledge how far behind they are and desperately trying to catch up.
- ExpiredLink 13y ago> how far behind they are and desperately trying to catch up They are merely the market leader ...
- bryanh 13y agoDefinitely not a market leader in developer experience.
- DiabloD3 13y agoWhen you're the market leader, you have to work twice as hard as the next guy in line. Paypal has at least 2 companies plus Bitcoin threatening to replace them at any given moment.
- primitivesuave 13y agoPayPal doesn't have to worry about being replaced as much as it has to worry about being marginalized. If a developer who has never integrated payment into their app asks me what platform to use, I'm going to answer "Stripe" without hesitation because they make it very simple for developers to use. PayPal needs to shift its focus toward making the developer experience better, because right now their documentation is a steaming pile of shit and their web interface is unintuitive.
- tzaman 13y agoI've heard this one before. From a source in PayPal. Years ago. (although admittedly I don't know how high up this source is)
- ricardobeat 13y agoConsidering they recently rewrote/moved major services to node.js, that might actually be true this time.