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Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse Developer Platform (cio.com)
itwbennett writes: In a blog post yesterday, Facebook announced it is shutting down the Parse developer platform as of Jan. 28, 2017, giving developers a year to move off its hosted services. This comes as a bit of a surprise, considering that just last month, Parse launched a set of new tools to help developers work with Apple's watchOS and tvOS last, and at the time, Parse Product Manager Supratik Lahiri promised more updates in the future. Developers who don't want to rewrite their applications to work with a new back-end service provider can follow a migration guide from Parse to make their applications work with an independent MongoDB instance and a new open-source Parse Server that's running on Salesforce-owned developer platform provider Heroku.
... another web API bites the bullet and all the kids will have to go learn yet another flash in the pan interface to connect to some moronic social site to scrape bullshit data to pass to an app they can sell to idiots.
over-reaction. They're giving a migration path that basically lets you run it self-hosted.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
It ends when the hipsters are kicked out of the industry. They've ruined everything they've touched. They ruin UIs that were good. They create awful frameworks. They prefer to use the absolute worst programming languages, like JavaScript, for everything. They took git and centralized it on GitHub. They're too lazy and/or dumb to learn SQL, so they use persistent hashtables for storing data, and query it using imperative JavaScript code. It's nothing but idiocy and disaster when it comes to these people. It doesn't matter if it's an 18 year old hipster or a 30 year old hipster or a 55 year old hipster. They all need to find a different occupation.