Christian (the Apollo developer) discussed that and said that it wasnâ(TM)t really his cup of tea. He enjoys making the product, not managing a beast. Fair enough.

From recent info released, itâ(TM)s got very little to do with the API itself, and more that Reddit is charging for âopportunity costâ(TM) of users eyeballs.

The Apollo developer was willing to make the changes require and set up monthly billing, but had 30 days to make all the changes. He stated that it simply wasnâ(TM)t possible.
Redditâ(TM)s actions are a red herring - theyâ(TM)re intentionally trying to kill 3rd party apps full stop.

Or you could just use a more modern language that is expressive like Python, but doesn't require you to use a different language to optimize bottlenecks. Like Julia, or Swift.

Some references to Julia as a ML language, including its GPU and automatic differentiation capabilities:

Blogs:

Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

DiffEqFlux.jl â" A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations

Why Numba and Cython are not substitutes for Julia

Papers:

Fashionable Modeling with Flux

Effective Extensible Programming: Unleashing Julia on GPUs

Dynamic Automatic Differentiation of GPU Broadcast Kernels

Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs

Don't Unroll Adjoint: Differentiating SSA-Form Programs

DiffEqFlux.jl - A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations

Confederated Modular Differential Equation APIs for Accelerated Algorithm Development and Benchmarking (about differential equations, not ML, but describes how Julia's architecture permits very modular algorithmic designs that custom-compile down to efficient implementations)

JITing Python is not really a substitute for Julia. Essentially, due to Python's language design, you can't JIT arbitrary code, only a subset, and it won't do dependent compilation (JITting through all your package dependencies to give you a custom-compiled version of user code and all the libraries it depends on).

I have no idea what you're talking about. Julia doesn't isn't any harder learn than Python. The statement that "you can't just pick it up and go" is just bizarre; the syntax is different from Python, but if you're learning Julia from scratch it's not worse than learning Python from scratch. It's true that their threading model is still in flux, but that's not really anything having to do with the language design.

Your complaint seems to boil down to "Python is the 'standard' approach, and therefore anything else is designed wrong and hard to learn".

It is 2018. We now have to justify "illegitimate" protocols. "Illegitimate" because they work better, take so much less electricity, and are utterly democratic. Because the tiny book, movie, music, and TV industries didn't like it.
We nuked the protocol because it worked too well and it couldn't be easily surveilled.
We are idiots led by liars.

Canada has as many volunteers as they need. The have opposing sides witness the count. No mistakes get made with that many jealous eyes locking their lasers on that counter.

Somehow Canada manages a manual pencil-check paper ballot They have counters from opposing sides witness the manual count. Works fine and is done very quickly, and it can be recounted at any time. No way to cheat. No electrons necessary. If you suspect one side has figured a way to infiltrate both witnessses, increase the number of counters. No limit on the number of eagle eyed buggers that can watch.

And addressing the 2000 fiasco, that was one party intentionally sandbagging the audit, dragging it out so that the Supreme Court could find a way to kill the recount. Hanging chads weren't the problem. It was hanging Republicans challenging everything and anything - there was no penalty for false challenges.

Simple regulation is all that is needed, and what we can't get.

It was the free market at work in Adam Smith's time as well, as he observed. A free market always leads to emergent or direct collusion to fix prices as high as they can be. Applecart economics doesn't work at a macro level. The market is a pack of ruthless buggers who will steal your teeth when you're sleeping. This is why we have regulations, or we used to.

I'd worry more about the voting machine company, but yep, this lets the locals the votes. Whoever knows the passwords can sell the passwords. Or give them away to get their candidate elected.

There've been a lot of weird and close elections in the last 17 years. Far too many.

Chicago now offers a Chicago ID card for just this purpose. The right wingers oppose it: guess why.

I TOLD YOU SO GOD DAMN IT.

Why would you assume they wouldn't install a backdoor? WHY??? Changing election totals gave them trillions of dollars in tax cuts and complete power.
Don't talk about open-source replacements. Any solution with electrons will be hacked and controlled. Go back to paper, the way Canada does, or did before the Tories rammed e-voting in. I wonder why, I wonder.

I haven't bought a single piece of music since 1999, when the music industry shut down Napster.
Never will again.
Don't collect music, either. Don't miss it.
Please join me in refusnik.
Not a single centavo for the industry that steals every penny off of artists.