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View submission: API Updates & Questions
A little BTS context, if you might find that helpful:
The FAQ was originally shared on the Dev Platform subreddit, and began with a bunch of back and forth with in a dedicated Discord channel over the weekend to let people vent their frustrations with each other and highlight where people had concerns around the changes or where the messaging was unclear, so from that angle the FAQ is definitely more focused towards bot development than it is 3P apps. Comments were left on that, but it's not something that was commented on with us given the app issues are on the business side than the technical side, and the admins there don't feel like they're involved on that end.
I can't say much without admin approval due to the NDA, but from my perspective being inside the closed beta, updates are frequent, and I think it's good in this early stage that it's initially a single language so that features get developed and missing features and data are discovered and patched. As soon as a second language is added, that's extra work for each release and complicates things. Personally, I'd love them to add Python (and they even ask when joining the waitlist what languages you already know) as Node is causing me some headaches in what I'm working on, but I wouldn't want that in exchange for the frequency of updates to the SDK that are allowing for much more user-friendly bots than we've currently got with the Data API, though they do still have their place.
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