Comment by janosd

I find it really sad that these efforts always stop at working in language X, but no formal specification exists that would make it possible to create an interoperable version in a different language. I love TypeScript, but for various reasons one may need a different backend language on the server side. Yes, OpenAPI is a thing, but I have yet to see an OpenAPI spec + code generator that works out of the box and doesn't need a whole lot of fiddling and workarounds. I also understand that it's hard to create something truly interoperable, my previous job was building a usecase-specific typing system, but adding yet more single-language ?RPC implementations isn't really helping. Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/927/