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The Worst API Ever Made (caseymuratori.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sizeoftheuniverse@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Deely@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im not even 100% sure that API is really bad? Some hairness could be easily explained by performance reasons. You don't want logging to take a massive amount of system resources.

[–] SmoothC@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it is really bad. And lazy. The kind of bad that people who don’t take pride in their work do. The kind of bad that makes great programmers quit