IDL
Providers using this tag (2)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
APIs with this tag (7)
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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Apache Thrift IDLThe Thrift Interface Definition Language (IDL) is used to define data types and service interfaces in a lan...Smithy IDLThe Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) is a specification for defining API models using shapes and ...Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. ...
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
SmithySmithy is an open-source IDL and code-generation framework for defining services and SDKs, created and main...TypeSpecTypeSpec (formerly Cadl) is a language for describing API shapes developed by Microsoft. TypeSpec definitio...WebAssembly Interface Type (WIT)WIT is the interface definition language for the Component Model. WIT describes the imports and exports of ...
Companies reaching this through an API (4)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “IDL” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.
Score breakdown
Frequency
25.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
35.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor
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Api tag7
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