What is an API? (Application Programming Interface) 

I'm a software developer, and this was a good overview. At first I thought you were just covering the graphics APIs, but I'm glad you went over things like the Windows API and APIs for social media. This is something that a lot of people don't know about programming and maybe scares them away from learning (we don't have to make everything from scratch)

I love how straightforward TechQuickie is in explaining various topics in a way that most watchers can understand, but it is not so long it's boring. Kudos to Linus, Luke, Dennis, and Jon for TechQuickie!

This was uploaded the moment when i was about to google what a api is

I've recently started a new career as a Project Manager (From teaching English to IT:)) and needed to deepen my knowledge in.... everything. Your channel helps me a lot! Thank you, guys!

Literately working their way through the tech dictionary.

After all these years, you still make great stuff, Linus

4:28 Wow! That's some Kurzgesagt level artwork right there!

This video was very informative, I always enjoy binge watching these videos because they are very helpful in understanding how things work. Good job!

This is the best description video of API's I've found yet. Looking forward to sharing it with my class.

Sweet, I always here Vulcan API when looking at games for my s7 and never understood what it was until now. Thank Linus!

A very good and solid explanation of API! Thanks!

Thank you this was one of the best explanations of API and how it works that I seen so far.

dude thank you so much - i just watched & read 20,000 different things about APIs and this is the only one that actually made me connect the dots

I really like this guys, seriously that's the reason why I come here to learn more about tech stuff and get update what I already know.

"ping 127.0.0.1" 10/10 picture choice

I love your videos and how you simplify complex subjects

Thank you for this very informative video. Linus! More power!

THIS GUY IS GOOD!!! KEPT ME GLUED TO MY SCREEN

Here in 2021. This was a great video in which he also refers two other really good informative videos!! Linus is great at what he does!!! Thanks man!

super cool visual effect you used when you broke down API acronym kudos on that.

Linus, why do you have orange hands in these videos???

1:40 "...or if you're a Bash fan, then.. yesterday." For me that's everyday, including today (that is, if we are counting ZSH). For a lot of things, I find it faster and more powerful than using a GUI.

1:44 see whats on F4, just see it!

So glad you made this!! :D

Linus you are a wealth of knowledge. Gaben bless thine soul

04:10 Yes, that would be like all programs using it to close themselves, then suddenly one uses it as a accept button.

On 64-bit you still use the Win32 API. Even though the code is 64-bit

Best Explanation Ever! ♥

I knew what an API is (great explanation btw) but wasn't sure what graphics APIs like D3D and OpenGL actually do, this summed it up nicely.

i've been programming for years why did i click on this

great video linus ! thanks

Very good explanation!

Dude, thank you. Well done.

Excellent content

Right on time!

I learned something new today!

Why do I need to learn this at midnight before work in the morning?!? I just can't stop myself

Why is Linus so yellow? Its like every single techquickie video has huge colour issues...

That Vulkan API is pretty remarkable when looking at how it is used in Doom (2016). Running on just R3 2200G iGPU, the game gets around 60fps @720p/med (Technically, 50% render scale of 1080p, so slightly more than 720p)

If you're a bash fan, then like yesterday! That's on point!

Another thing that was somewhat glossed over in this video: APIs control what data is exposed to the consumer and what stuff is hidden, and this is usually tied in with some sort of authentication algorithm. Web APIs, for example, often use token-based authentication to control what data a user can see.

1:44 nice commands, dont think I've ever seen those before

thnks so much for the greate videos

Thanks a lot for the video

thanks dear it was awesome

hii techquickie I love all your tech videos.. can you make a video on programming languages...and it's history..

I like this kind of linus

“Or if your a bash fan than yesterday “ 1:50 I shouldn’t have laughed as hard as I did

haha... l was just thinking to myself last night "l wonder if Techquickie will do APIs?" and the l got the notification that this very thing has happened.

Yeap, this is what I need. Please keep creating a video like this. I don't like hardware videos, but if it comes to software then I count it as better knowledge. Why don't you create a video about terminal / unix language or maybe github or package manager, explanation about ajax and cetera. That would be awesome.

Thankx bro good going

I covered this at university but I have since forgotten most of it.

Thank you

Forget "psycology of fonts" or "battery bank buy guide" and other kind of nonsense videos. I suscribed here for this kind of videos.

Thanks!

the commercials at the end kills him.

a techquickie that's quick?!

You know you could add captions, earn points, and move up the regime.

3:44 "Window 95"... Just one Window? :P

As a senior software developer, I approve this message

why do i have deja vu about luke talking about waiter and chef cooking pizza

Great video, but too short. Could you make a little bit more detailed video about this topic, huge please? :)

Getting real worried that Linus' transformation into an oompa loompa will be complete soon. Those palms are getting awfully orange in a quickie.

I never thought i would be watching LTT for help in high school programming, but here I am.

Why is Linus' voice so high, it's so much deeper now comparatively.

Things will turn out fine

thanks

please make a video on "SYSTEM CALLS"

I'm surprised you guys didn't make a video called what is openGL by now. That has to be a commonly asked question

"if bash, then yesterday" I see what you did there

Linus, can you do a techquicky about Floating point performance and how it relates to single and double precision (whatever that means) and this 16 bit and 32 bit accuracy that I hear people talking about. Like how quadro graphics card are apparently better at rendering using such techniques. Sorry if I made this question hard to interpret. Have a good day please.

4:08 "I mean, can you imagine if every single program on your computer had different looking close button on the corner?" Yeah...that pretty much happens on Linux if you screw up with theme settings... More specifically if you set different looking theme for each toolkits

still waiting for Luke's version of tech reviews

An API isn't really a distinct layer, but more where to layers meet, at the 'interface' of the two if you will.

lol "or if you're a bash fan, yesterday" loooooool

Cool. God bless you

Your commercials are hilarious

Which is the best graphics api

Cool Beans will always be around.

SUGGESTION - can you guys do a "As Fast As Possible" video on MSI's Afterburner program or Awesome Miner please?

cool.. and this video explains how to simply secure the api to the endpoint @

Dang nabbit Linus, use a foot pedal to trigger your teleprompter.

just now noticed... fast as possible, F.A.P.

Do you know how to render OpenGL without allocating the memory at the location 0xB50000050500FF?

Video on Ansynchronous Spacewarp?

Didn't Luke make a video on this same topic a few days back??

So how about a framework or libraries? How are they different?

Thanx

I don’t know how it is today with Win10 but back in the late 90s early 2000s a friend techie theorised that the main reason Windows would be more unreliable than say MacOS is that Win has to ‘make do’ with infinitesimal combinations of hardware whilst MacOS had a close system and only had to manage this or that hardware making the OS not only more stable but also quicker - Unix aside. An analogy could be Hackintoshes: when you want to make MacOS play with several combinations of hardware you’ll likely face the same issues one would face using Windows...

What do you think of MuleSoft API ?

This is a Braintree commercial. but 1:44 there is a sweet list of commands. I didn't know I could just type 'sex.' Awesome.

Bash came out 8 years after DOS, not yesterday...

But how do I know which API is required for a computer program to work and is it only required to run a program or we can code a program without the API also? Which API required to run C/C++ code and which installed files are API?

cuando tendremos subtitulos en español de este canal?

This video came recommended after watching the LTT preview of Intel's ARC GPUs, which they report perform great on Vulkan and DX12, but not so hot on all the titles that are still using DX11. Let that sink in: this video is *five years old* and game makers are *still* dragging their heels moving to the new APIs.

Great 👍

can u talk about the Dxo ratings for smartphone cameras !

There are some programs that have different looking close buttons,

Did anyone else catch the pitch change at 4:31? His voice dropped mid sentence

that was fun