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Dev tools · October 17, 2023

Hacker News API SDKs → Code Generation in Rust

Hi Hacker News! Patrick and Elias here. We built an SDK / Documentation generator for REST APIs. The link included shows the shiny output of our system: the docs! We generated 5 SDKs and docs from the Hacker News OpenAPI we found on GitHub. If you write code in Python, Typescript, Go, Ruby, or Rust, we’d love for you to try an SDK out! If you want to generate SDKs for your own API try our tool here: https://github.com/Sideko-Inc/sideko We are both software engineers, and we built this tool because we were spending too much time writing API integrations, supporting…

Hacker News API SDKs → Code Generation in Rust launched on October 17, 2023 with 39 votes, #1,265 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Sideko is an SDK and documentation generator for REST APIs written in Rust. It automatically creates typed software development kits and API documentation from OpenAPI specifications in Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and Rust. Developers can use pre-generated SDKs for the Hacker News API or generate custom SDKs for their own APIs, reducing time spent on manual API integration and documentation work.

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Hi Hacker News! Patrick and Elias here. We built an SDK / Documentation generator for REST APIs. The link included shows the shiny output of our system: the docs! We generated 5 SDKs and docs from the Hacker News OpenAPI we found on GitHub. If you write code in Python, Typescript, Go, Ruby, or Rust, we’d love…

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