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> Huh, he seems to focus pretty heavily on G+ API, which was probably pretty bad when he posted this in 2011.

The repost of this (I don't know how close it was to the original sharing) was about a month after Google first released the initial, extremely limited G+ API -- and only four months after Google introduced G+. (Google had already rolled out another set of APIs at the time of that repost.)

> Any idea if it's gotten better?

G+ in specific has a much more robust API than it did at the time (unsurprisingly, given how new it was then), and more significantly Google in general has really developed very much in a way that seems to be in the direction Yegge was calling for in the essay.



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