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Re:Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAP... by gotaran on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:56PM (#41249338)
OpenAPI is just pointless abstraction like GraphQL
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Re:Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAP... by unregistereddev on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @03:21PM (#41249592)
It's a documentation spec that has a lot of tooling around it. I disagree that it is either pointless or an abstraction.

Back in the day, the best feature of SOAP API's was that they were documented in a machine readable fashion. Point your IDE at the WSDL endpoint and it would autogenerate an API client for you. OpenAPI and the various tooling around it finally offer us something similarly convenient for REST API's.

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Re:Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAP... by jen20 on Friday August 16, 2024 @08:26AM (#41265739)
OpenAPI is a description, not an abstraction.
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