[nickjj]

> Every time a new language comes out we have to recreate millions of baseline libraries and it just sucks. As a dev I want to be able to make use of great libraries oblivious to what they are created with.

Technically this tool mostly does exist already with the OpenAPI specification if we're talking about REST APIs. If you as the API provider put in the leg work to create a very detailed specification which is a YAML file, you can generate programming language specific SDKs out of it as long as the language has an OpenAPI library to consume this spec in an accurate way.

Stripe has publicly mentioned[0] they mostly use this spec to generate their SDKs (even as of a few years ago), but I guess auto-generated code still requires some developer time and there's a quality assurance level of "hey we're dedicated to internally supporting this". It's a huge deal having a provider internally support your language's SDK.

[0]: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/issues/694#issuecomm...

[blain_the_train]

clojure can turn a data api into a first class clojure library with relatively less effort.

e.g https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api