Curated

Superfeedr : Protocols over APIs

blog.superfeedr.com on 05/15/2012

Excerpt: There is not a week where I don’t see developers discovering that a given API has been deprecated. Today’s disappointment (at least in my twitter stream) comes from the Google Chart Tool API. Don’t get me wrong. I feel for these developers and I would be upset should the same problem happen to me. Now, being upset is great. Learning how to prevent that is better, and I believe there are many ways to avoid that. The most obvious one is to re-invent the wheel as suggested by Adactio. Next time someone asks why I’m reinventing the wheel, I’m telling them it’s because the wheel API is being deprecated. developers. google.... read the full post.

My Thoughts: I agree with what he's saying here. The best thing we can do to make sure an API lives on is open-source, derive a standard from it and let it live on. Lots of good discussion to be had in this area.