Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Jan 4, 2014 23:23 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion by krake
Parent article: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

> Standardisation of APIs is unfortunately often also just wasted effort. Standardisation of protocols and data formats on the other hand are usually long lived and successful.

actually, I'll disagree with this.

standardization of APIs can be extremely valuable

standardization of toolkits (and their APIS) is far less useful.

The Unix POSIX API standardization is an example of a very valuable API standard.