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📣 ironmagma

What are some of the best APIs ever designed?


What are some of the best APIs ever designed?


  👤 assttoasstmgr Accepted Answer ✓
From a backwards-compatibility standpoint, WinAPI hands down.

A while back I found a game from 1993 which I pulled off floppy disk. It is a 16-bit executable that was originally designed for Win 3.1.

To my surprise, it runs fine on (32-bit) Windows 10. With sound and everything.

I have Mac applications from three years ago that will not run on the current macOS.

I have Linux applications that broke and/or became crashy during a routine system update which updated some libraries and required a recompile to restore stability.


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