TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
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Re: TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
#2I love the idea of tools like this. I have looked at Buf and Fern and am curious to try this as well.
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#3some prior discussion, just not from the main url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833321
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#4Why create a new language, rather than use an established programming language like Go where you can actually write an implementation too?
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#5Why create a new language, rather than use an established programming language like Go where you can actually write an implementation too?
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#6Looks like the Typescript version of WSDL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Langu...
Perhaps it will last longer than WSDL did?
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#7Bespoke languages are a hard sell and incur significant extra effort on the team building this.
1. People don't want to learn bespoke languages.
2. You have to build all the ecosystem tools for a language (compiler, docs, language-server, IDE integrations, dependency management)
Similar endeavors are WaspLang and DarkLang, which I have yet to see in the wild or (meaningfully) on HN. Better to use an existing language and focus on the value add.
I personally built something with similar value add (source of truth -> all the things). I've been through some of these pain points myself.
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
The idea is CUE + text/template = (not limited to APIs)
Re: TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
#8Bespoke languages are a hard sell and incur significant extra effort on the team building this. 1. People don't want to learn bespoke languages. 2. You have to build all the ecosystem tools for a language (compiler, docs, language-server, IDE integrations, dependency management) Similar endeavors are WaspLang and DarkLang, which I have yet to see in the wild or (meaningfully) on HN. Better to use an existing language…
New languages are at an even bigger disadvantage now with the rise of generative AI programming. A fancy new framework that is objectively better may actually be less productive because AI haven't been trained on it
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#10What is wrong with protobufs and grpc?