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by jessaustin 4441 days ago
Google, as usual, are the worst offender, their .Net library is really bad and incredibly overcomplicated. It does make you wonder about all the hype of 'best' engineers.

Maybe their "'best' engineers" are working on anything but .Net? My impression of the Google culture is that they're more focused on platforms for which .Net is not a factor.
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conductr 4440 days ago
Tend to agree. Many individuals could write the libraries for ruby, python, JavaScript, and PHP. And it's likely that would cover 3/4 of your users needs. .net java and even some of the functional langs don't usually justify the dev time and experience gap.

* elaborate - small teams don't always have the experience or desire to support these langs. better left to the community

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mattmanser 4440 days ago
You live in cuckoo land if you think ruby/python are more widely used than Java/C#.
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conductr 4440 days ago
in the context of restful apis?

seems like it's mostly web apps that are building rest apis. Most web apps are ruby/python/php. I'm pretty sure, but could be wrong. My hypothesis is based on the builder of the web app uses langs they are familiar with when they build out a selection of client library. The claim of a lack of .Net libraries seems to justify my thinking

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