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by geemus 4761 days ago
I would be happy to explain.

We did provide a legacy API (v2), the platform API is the next iteration on the design (v3). The legacy API was mostly used just internally and we knew we could do better in providing a great public API for external folks to tie into and use for awesome stuff.

Currently heroku.rb still uses the legacy API, as we did not want to introduce breaking changes to heroku.rb and because the legacy API will still be around for a while. We will build new tools and update existing ones, but plan to do so later in the beta so that we can integrate feedback and see what will best help people.
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nthj 4761 days ago
> The legacy API was mostly used just internally

I find that amazing. I think every app I've ever worked on or built with Heroku has tied into the API in one way or another. It's one of your best features.

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geemus 4760 days ago
A number of people definitely found their way through the toolbelt code to use the API previously, which is amazing. We hope by giving a stronger focus and some proper documentation that we can make it much more accessible to more and more people.
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