Bringing Types to APIs with TypeSpec | Zuplo Blog

Good API design is intentional. You are building something that needs to be easy to use, maintainable, scalable, and robust. This is the problem that OpenAPI helps solve. Instead of hacking an API together, OpenAPI lets you design within a specification and generate code from there. While OpenAPI definitely improves API design, documentation, and collaboration, it has a couple of challenges: It has a steep learning curve. For developers new to OpenAPI, there can be a learning curve to understand the specification's syntax, structure, and best practices. This may require an initial investment of time and effort. It’s verbose. OpenAPI specifications can become quite large and verbose, especially for complex APIs. This can make it difficult to manage, maintain, and understand the API design.