Designing web APIs for mass consumption is a new skill the market hasn’t really encountered or selected for yet, and it’s going to unlock $B in value and — easily — triple the size of even the most thoughtfully designed APIs in market.
cc @patrickc @dps @patio11
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Yeah — I think the surface area of unsolved problems is going to increase dramatically as new tooling hits the market. Something I’m encountering now: “I can solve your problem for you with APIs... but I don’t have the right APIs or type definitions, so let’s write Javascript.”
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What I think we’re apt to discover is that even things as simple as array manipulation in e.g. Javascript acts as a wonderful polyfill for lackluster API design that we never noticed because when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We’ll see.
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