We love simple and elegant modules and frameworks, the one liners that make you understand something right away without needing to go through any documentation at all, REPLs, immediate experimentation and feedback, and more importantly, the instant reward from of small accomplishments.

That’s why we (recently) released one api client for Python and (not so recently) an api client for Javascript.

We couldn’t be prouder of how simple and elegant they are. Take a look at a basic hello world for the Python client:

and for the Javascript client:

As a comparison here is a word count program for hadoop, the most popular distributed computing platform. It has 122 lines of code, not that immediate.