> Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations.
You'd think these people would know the meaning of API, no?
You'd think these people would know the meaning of API, no?
> The interface to a software library is one type of API. The API describes and prescribes the "expected behavior" (a specification) while the library is an "actual implementation" of this set of rules.
Yes, I still wonder why you'd be picking this particular silly semantic battle.
> The term API is often used to refer to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware.
Uncorroborated by WP, note.
> If you disagree perhaps you should share your preferred term here?
Library functions.