Honestly, that's what most web API's are. You are just pushing data around. The "hard" part is that everyone has their own opinions on how it should be formatted.

And of course the minor inconvenience of having to give the user a way to make data entry easy, convenient and consistent.

But deep down it's all spreadsheets. The faster you can wrap your head around that the easier programming is for you.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

Lua figured that out back in '93, their main data structure is the table

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

but from a programmers perspective - shouldn't it feel natural - you just keep filling up forms doing the same work again and again?

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From a programmers perspective it takes a grand total of 2 minutes to do a bash/python script or jupyter notebook that exposes a semantically adequate interface. Maybe 5 minutes, if instead of just doing something quick and dirty yourself you decide to get into an argument with an LLM.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean by natural?

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no.

I already hate apis that requires tokens. It's awful to use manually

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why the fuck would you use an API manually?

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

In development. You may want to test the endpoint using curl or something like that