The Worst API Ever Made (2014) (caseymuratori.com)
from tedu to programming on 01 Aug 2023 03:49
https://azorius.net/p/dSz7V7MDtPwpFQT86T-The-Worst-API-Ever-Made-2014

I don’t think people who make APIs really appreciate how important it is to get them right, and how much unnecessary work their mistakes can cause for hundreds, thousands, sometimes even millions of other programmers. So I felt like it was important to spend an article walking through an API and showing just how much unnecessary work an API can manufacture.

But when I thought long and hard about who the all-time heavyweight bad API champion was, there was one clear winner: Event Tracing for Windows.

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