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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

programming on the Web platform makes me feel like the Web is very complicated; programming on Apple platforms makes me feel like the world is very complicated

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

that is, the Web APIs feel complicated for path-dependent historical reasons and not inherent ones, while the Apple APIs contain all this weird specific detail that actually does feel 'learned' from experience in the world, like enums for all the kinds of family relationships a person can have, or specific callback and event loop interfaces that almost force you to write fast code

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