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IDL

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Providers using this tag (6)

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Thin 2 Limited public surface area
gRPCgRPC is a high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework that uses HTTP/2 for transport, Protocol Bu...7 APIs37.6Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It provides an inte...2 APIs26.6
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a cross-language RPC framework originally developed at Facebook for scalable cross-languag...1 API20.4SmithySmithy is an open source, protocol-agnostic interface definition language (IDL) and toolchain developed at ...2 APIs20.0API SpecificationsMeta-index of the specification languages used to describe APIs, events, schemas, and service interfaces ac...13 APIs15.7Component ModelThe WebAssembly Component Model is a broad-reaching architecture for building interoperable WebAssembly lib...4 APIs15.3

APIs with this tag (7)

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Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Protocol Buffers Service Definition SchemaJSON Schema for Protocol Buffers service definition format (.proto files). Describes the structure of gRPC ...37.6Apache Thrift IDLThe Thrift Interface Definition Language (IDL) is used to define data types and service interfaces in a lan...26.6
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Apache ThriftApache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. ...20.4Smithy IDLThe Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) is a specification for defining API models using shapes and ...20.0SmithySmithy is an open-source IDL and code-generation framework for defining services and SDKs, created and main...15.7TypeSpecTypeSpec (formerly Cadl) is a language for describing API shapes developed by Microsoft. TypeSpec definitio...15.7WebAssembly Interface Type (WIT)WIT is the interface definition language for the Component Model. WIT describes the imports and exports of ...15.3

Score breakdown

Frequency
25.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
26.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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