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 Why are Google APIs all so incredibly hard to use? 
 You should try using Azure, worst experience ever. I hated my life when I had to use it for a client. 
 Cause they're not built on NOSTR 
 All big tech companies seem to have horrible APIs. Just authenticating seems to require an elaborate dance. 
 Agree they are bad, the ones built around GRPC are even worse… at least the REST ones can be debugged easily. 
 I remember when I was first learning python 3 and trying to use their Gmail api. The example code in their docs was written in Python 2. Good times trying to solve errors in that mess without a gpt.  
 its by design so that more people leap off a very high building and boy there are no china suicide nets 
 I guess this is intentional. 
 I guess because they were inspired by their internal apis designed for their custom frontends and public apis were intended for use with their official SDKs