[josephschmoe]

Many API users are not knowledgeable to the intricacies of network programming. This could definitely use an executive summary at the top with the following info: "What will these new libraries that replace APIs offer to single point API users?"

[cemerick]

(Author here.) As a start, hopefully removing the blinders that makes statements like "many API users are not knowledgeable to the intricacies of network programming" oh so true. That that statement can be made without popular incredulity only reinforces the point that modern network API technologies have largely been built to sustain the illusion that there is no network, and you're just making a method call somewhere. Insert this-plt-life GIF here. :-P

Building systems with things like CRDTs and tools and languages that support CALM will allow people using point-to-point APIs to continue to do the things they do now, but remove much of the incidental complexity from the equation. An example would be that, when you are relying upon N replication mechanisms to move CRDT state or operations from _here_ to _there_, you don't need complex timeout, retry, and backoff mechanisms to compensate for the realities of what's connecting the two parties. The message will arrive when it arrives...exactly the only guarantee that you can make in the general case of someone talking to external services.