Grammarly said in a blog post yesterday that it would close Text Editor SDK, the developer tool that integrates its automated editing into any program. After January 10, 2024, the tool will no longer work in any apps that use it.
According to Drew Endick, senior manager for platform partners at Grammarly, the firm wants to focus on the core product and commit internal technical resources. Given the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, the company is considering adding AI to the platform.
“Grammarly to close the deprecating the Text Editor SDK allows us to focus on achieving this vision and meeting increased demand from enterprises by dedicating our resources to addressing their challenges,” Endick told TechCrunch in an email.
In 2021, the firm published a beta of the SDK, excited to let developers add Grammarly text editing to any app:
Grammarly’s head of product and platform,
Rob Brazier, says the beta SDK lets developers use Grammarly’s automated editing with a few lines of code. “Literally in just a couple lines of HTML, [developers] can add Grammarly’s assistance to their application, and they get a native Grammarly experiences available to all of their users without the users needing to install or register Grammarly,” Brazier said.
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The company estimates that thousands of developers have reviewed and hundreds have built applications since the SDK launched. Developers will have to remove that capability from their programs since it will only be available to service subscribers.
APIs should only be changed if necessary to avoid disrupting developers. The company claims it is working with the community to minimize the impact of shutting down a two-year-old product.
Endick added, “As with any product deprecation, we recognize that developers who invested in integrating the SDK may be disappointed, and we’re here to support them as they remove it from their apps.
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The change upset Hacker News poster sbjs said It’s terrible. The SDK’s most powerful feature is now site-exclusive. “I can see the incentive to make this decision, but it will have counterproductive results for the same reason,” they stated.
The SDK will remain unchanged till January. Endick advised developers to delete Text Editor SDK interfaces from their products by January 10, 2024.
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