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Low level APIs are the very common across recent Browser/Web APIs. Working directly with those low level APIs usually works out until you approach a certain degree of complexity. At some point you are required to build an abstraction layer on top of these low level apis, that serves your needs.
The Shared Memory and Atomics, you mentioned is one example. Another currently very emerging example are Web Component. Writing Web-Components with the browser APIs only is certainly not as verbose as fighting with concurrent memory management, but starts becoming verbose as soon as you want to sync more than two attributes with props of your web component.
Within the last year a lot of libraries for building web-components were released. Each with their own benefits and promises.
So you're absolutely right: low level APIs are a very common and necessary pattern (to serve everyones needs).
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Low level APIs are the very common across recent Browser/Web APIs. Working directly with those low level APIs usually works out until you approach a certain degree of complexity. At some point you are required to build an abstraction layer on top of these low level apis, that serves your needs.
The Shared Memory and Atomics, you mentioned is one example. Another currently very emerging example are Web Component. Writing Web-Components with the browser APIs only is certainly not as verbose as fighting with concurrent memory management, but starts becoming verbose as soon as you want to sync more than two attributes with props of your web component.
Within the last year a lot of libraries for building web-components were released. Each with their own benefits and promises.
So you're absolutely right: low level APIs are a very common and necessary pattern (to serve everyones needs).