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0 pointsriwsky2y ago0 comments

The point is that you don’t need a framework for that; the APIs are already similar enough that it should be obvious how to abstract over them using whatever approach is natural in your programming language of choice.

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refulgentis2y ago

I have a consumer app that swaps between the 5 bigs and wholeheartedly agree, except, God help you if you're doing Gemini. I somewhat regret hacking it into the same concepts as everyone else.

I should have built stronger separation boundaries with more general abstractions. It works fine, I haven't had any critical bugs / mistakes, but it's really nasty once you get to the actual JSON you'll send.

Google's was 100% designed by a committee of people who had never seen anyone else's API, and if they had, they would have dismissed it via NIH. (disclaimer: ex-Googler, no direct knowledge)

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