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		Swizec on Sept 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem OpenAPI is only useful if you intend for your project to become bigger than what fits in your head or if you intend to keep a project alive for long enough to start forgetting things you did a while back.

jlengrand on Sept 22, 2024 [–]

Or if you deliver an API and any of your users / customers want to use anything else than a raw API. IMHO the top value of OpenAPI isn't for you, it's for the people who will use what you make

salomonk_mur on Sept 22, 2024 | [–]

Agreed. Most of the value comes when people other than you need (or will need) to use it.

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