Do you mind explaining why it is a mess? I'm not doubting what you are saying is true, it is just that recently I used a Clojure library to connect to Facebook, Google, and github, and the code to do so is simple and more or less the same for each site, with one of the sites being slightly different.
Is the mess on the side of a library writer's perspective? Or in running it on the server?
> more or less the same for each site, with one of the sites being slightly different
That's because the Clojure library isolated you from the vastly different interpretations that those providers have of the spec. Had you written your connectors from scratch, you would have experienced the "mess."
Is the mess on the side of a library writer's perspective? Or in running it on the server?