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)

Literately working their way through the tech dictionary.

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

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!

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

"ping 127.0.0.1" 10/10 picture choice

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 love your videos and how you simplify complex subjects

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

So glad you made this!! :D

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.

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...

great video linus ! thanks

Dude, thank you. Well done.

I learned something new today!

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)

Very good explanation!

Best Explanation Ever! ♥

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

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

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

Excellent content

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.

Right on time!

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

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

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.

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

thnks so much for the greate videos

Thanks a lot for the video

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?

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.

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

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

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

thanks dear it was awesome

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

Thank you

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

im switching to pc gaming but i only have windows 7...i have a core 2 quad and 8gb ddr2...do i need to uprgrade to windows 10 to game? since directx 12 is only supported on 10?

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

I like this kind of linus

As a senior software developer, I approve this message

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

Thanks!

If I use a Xeon 24 Core processor for gaming, will Direct X 12 help utilize and distribute load on all 24 cores during gaming or will it just put burden on 6 7 cores and the other cores will be just useless? plz help....

Thankx bro good going

a techquickie that's quick?!

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

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

I have a question. What hardware do i need to play star citizen on ultra with an VR?

please make a video on "SYSTEM CALLS"

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

thanks

still waiting for Luke's version of tech reviews

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

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

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

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

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.

So, visualized, the more applications you have on one end, the more you have to add on the other? I imagine a normal software like this: Hardware -> Driver -> Programm And a game like this: Hardware -> Driver -> API -> Engine -> Software (game) As someone learning IT it still confuses me, any help?

the commercials at the end kills him.

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

Things will turn out fine

hi i need a help regarding rx 480 graphic card, i have AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor + Asus M4N68T-M V2 system will it compatible?

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

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.

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

Thanx

Hey LTT a few video ideas I've had while trying to decide on all the stuff going into a gaming PC I'll be building soon. I'm moving from laptop to desktop so in my situation there is no legacy hardware being integrated so it's a fresh slate kinda situation. So first conundrum I've encountered is when my buddies told me right now summer/fall 2016 was the worst possible time to buy a processor. By this they mean that while Skylake is the most important architecture change both Intel Caby Lake and AMD Zen are imminent for release. While I've satisfied myself that Zen is too far away and I have no legacy processor to sit and wait on. Caby Lake is potentially much closer. Perhaps answering the question how long is reasonable to wait for the optimization? The next question is architecture vs raw performance. Generally Intel in CPU and Nvidia in GPU are the bigger innovators with AMD coming in with lower prices and similar numbers. But is it just a basic numbers game or are there other factors? Like the Nvidia 10 series GPU is supposed to have optimization for VR. Does the competing AMD chip match this? Finally there's what type of Displays(plural) to buy. I've been told by certain sources that it's best to match displays. resolution for resolution, size for size. Which leads me to first consider two displays 27" at 2560x1440, where one display is for gaming and the other for everything else going on. But then I'm like that's a really really huge and expensive way to look at teamspeak and check Facebook on that second monitor. In my ideal world I'd have a single 34" 21:9 aspect running 3440x1440 curved gaming display, and then some cheap low response 1080p display for utility functionality. My budget would love that but that's two different aspect ratios, resolutions and screen sizes. Is that asking too much? Thanks for reading hope this inspires some content that can help me out. cheers

Everytime i learn about API's I get the concept instantly but its the acronym that messes up the understanding after a while. can someone explain why do we call it "application programming interface" ? which app is getting "programmed" ? shouldn't it be more like application communication interface or something like that

What do you think of MuleSoft API ?

Cool Beans will always be around.

Cool. God bless you

can u talk about the Dxo ratings for smartphone cameras !

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...

So in terms of gaming, the engine would talk to the API or say OpenGL which would then talk to the driver which would then talk to the hardware? Engine>API>Driver>Hardware?

I got API code from Adobe free, could they start charging for it or turn it off?

I remember when techquickie was about "... as quick as possible" or "... in under a minute". Good ol' days. Rip 6 min videos

Which is the best graphics api