The Worst API Ever Made

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  • krabsetw

    KrabsETW provides a modern C++ wrapper and a .NET wrapper around the low-level ETW trace consumption functions.

  • OMG, Just use https://github.com/microsoft/krabsetw and be done with it...

  • MathAnimation

    A simple C++/OpenGL application to create quick and dirty mathematically accurate animations

  • Win32 definitely has some stinkers. But, video encoding APIs definitely take the cake for me. I've only tried a couple of FFmpeg's APIs and AV1's API, but my God, these are the worst API's I've ever had to deal with.

    Just as an example, all I wanted was an API like this[0] for FFmpeg. In order to implement that API (which in my opinion is reasonable), I had to write this monstrosity[1]. It took me a solid week to find an example of how to do this, then another few days of fiddling until I finally just barely got something working. Then I threw in the towel even though the performance was horrible. I tried again a year later and spent another month wrestling with AV1 :/

    The amount of leakage going on in these APIs is absolutely insane. I shouldn't have to know the intimate details of how video encoding works to use your library. If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point.

    [0]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...

    [1]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...

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