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Ian Wagner

The state of

* Generators for 5 of the top 20 most popular programming languages have wild variations in features supported, and *usually* interpret common features differently.
* Two of the 5 language's client generators produce code which require manual modifications before it will compile or behave as intended.
* Automatic generation server-side is still limited.
* The latest *minor* update, released 5 years ago, only has *experimental* support in most tooling.

Apr 03, 2025, 02:40 AM·Public
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Ian Wagner

Also, every single documentation generator is broken in its own particular way 😂

At what point does someone decide it's time to build something that isn't bound by the historical limitations, JSON schema, etc.?

(And yes, I'm aware of xkcd.com/927/)

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