This website has 81% battery power remaining

Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by chakkepolja on Sunday December 12, 2021 @03:25PM (#29533257)

I think he is talking about badly written JS code serving the APIs and the overhead of it.

Of course it's hard to debate whether JS, Java or PHP is most inefficient in that regard.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by onion2k on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:51PM (#29534012)

I strongly believe that the efficiency of an API is 1% down to the language it's coded in, and 99% down to who coded it.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:53PM (#29534533)

Yes and no; while it's still true that you can write FORTRAN in any language, there are network effects that mean the effort required to write efficient code is different per language/community/framework.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by ComputerGuru on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:28AM (#29536935)

I think that’s true if you take a no dependencies approach but as soon as you tap into the ecosystem the argument is lost.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by onion2k on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:06AM (#29537438)

Not really. It still depends on who coded it. It's just that there's more people involved now.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by labster on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:58PM (#29534578)

Corollary: The average API is far less efficient than the languages you like to complain about their efficiency.

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