This times 1000.
AN API IS ALREADY A PROTOCOL but it doesn't require external processes, serialization, extra failure modes, etc, etc.
The fact that the HN community seems to have jumped aboard this idea, "yeah let's just require a server to do something simple like format text in your editor", is completely flabbergasting. People just seem to have NO IDEA how much complexity they are adding, and don't care.
Maybe in 5 years our machines will be running 10,000 processes at boot because people will want a server for every operation...
The fact that the HN community seems to have jumped aboard this idea, "yeah let's just require a server to do something simple like format text in your editor", is completely flabbergasting. People just seem to have NO IDEA how much complexity they are adding, and don't care.
Maybe in 5 years our machines will be running 10,000 processes at boot because people will want a server for every operation...