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Tangential but I find it funny that such a simple service has libraries for so many different languages. Is one simple HTTP call and JSON deserialization that hard? Personally I'd be more concerned about bringing yet another 3rd party module (leftpad, security, maintenance) than doing GET + JSON.parse but maybe convenience is what's most important.

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One of the first things people tend to look at for an API is whether or not there's a library that makes integration as easy as possible. One HTTP call and JSON deserialization is often more thought and effort than people want to put in.

Right, this is why we have multiple copy-pasteable examples in different languages. To make it as straight forward and quick as possible to get started.

> One HTTP call and JSON deserialization is often more thought and effort than people want to put in.

I rest my case.

They only have one official library (python); all the language examples are just showing how to do an HTTP call to the service

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