[EdSharkey]

> And how is it that a "good API" requires client modules for all these different languages? Do people not know how to make HTTP requests anymore or something?

I look at a service like a plate of hors d'oeuvres across the room on a fancy table.

A client module (aka SDK) is the silver platter with the hors d'oeuvres neatly lined up for your selection, brought to you by the handsome waiter who is the only other person in the room who speaks your language.

One could walk to the table, and hardcore partygoers do, but lazy, entitled sacks like me prefer the delights to be hand-delivered. ;)

[tomc1985]

Til you realized those hand-delivered delights aren't particularly well made, and then grumble to yourself about how you coulda made them way better and faster in less time than them, maybe even less time than it would take to eat the food on your plate :P

[EdSharkey]

Yes, the promised 'delights' are too often frozen plainwrap food from Albertsons, barely defrosted in a dirty industrial microwave.