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The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs

https://blog.ar-ms.me/thoughts/translation-cli/
23•ezekg•1h ago

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alexjray•59m ago
Show me the incentive and I can likely guess how hard your API is to use.
Svoka•45m ago
This is strangest read I had in a while. It is like saying that operating a submarine is very counter intuitive, I know how to operate an airliner, both are vehicles.
stevedonovan•14m ago
It was my first taste of Swift, and has destroyed any lingering curiosity I had about it.
blumenkraft•43m ago
In all honesty this is how a typical developer experience has been for a long time in a number of systems. Expecting someone to pre-chew your programming food is silly.
Bratmon•2m ago
The difference is that most of those systems have documentation that explains how to use their weird APIs.
a1o•30m ago
> You probably already know this, but apparently the first line in the file, that comment, is actually significant.

I did not knew this.

dvh•28m ago
For me the worst APIs by far are on Android. They are even worse than win32.
behnamoh•2m ago
Nope, Google AI APIs are second to none. That shit will make you question whether their services are worth it.
lacoolj•12m ago
I'm really sorry, but when someone posts an entire article that they don't first proof-read at least once, it makes me question the rest of what I'm reading and can't continue.

> ... I found mysekf launching TextEdit just to do that

I hope everyone else enjoys it!

saulpw•11m ago
on the one hand, why didn't they just pump it through the "Ghost" and have it fix all the problems for them?

on the other hand, I appreciated knowing that it was actually written by a frustrated human, and not sanitized by the Ghost.

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