CYcyptus·Feb 24, 2026Submission
Microsoft AutoRest Deprecation – July 1, 2026
2 points · Open discussionAzure
autorest
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autorest
OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, PowerShell, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
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What it is
OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, PowerShell, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
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Where it is used
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- swagger-api/swagger-codegen · linked in 4 of the same discussions
- go-swagger/go-swagger · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- openapitools/openapi-generator · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
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No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
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Observed mentions: 2015-04-29 22:28:22 UTC to 2026-02-24 22:14:36 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
11 sourcesThe autorest project uses this actually.
It works by embedding yaml code blocks into a markdown file.
It’s actually not completely awful and has proven somewhat useful to have a configuration clearly documented within the config.
https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/generate/re...
In MDN converted to MarkdownI wonder if there is a format for API -> client automation that can be good enough, in the end Stripe have a rest API, with enough description it should be possible.
Okay so after a quick google it appears Microsoft are the "Simpsons already done it" of the programming world: https://github.com/Azure/autorest/
It'd probably be a good idea to add an Elixir backend for that and point it at the Stripe's API here: https://github.com/stripe/openapi
In The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B UnicornDoes apimatic use the following open-source code generators or it builds a proprietary code generator from scratch?
Swagger Codegen: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
OpenAPI Generator: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
AutoRest: https://github.com/Azure/AutoRest
NSwag: https://github.com/RicoSuter/NSwag
oapi-codegen: https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen
go-swagger: https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
In Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKsI write by hand. Generated clients are ugly. Its not very hard to write those clients.
There are several auto-rest implementations that can generate stuff based on open API specification.
https://github.com/Azure/AutoRest
In Ask HN: Should we waste hours writing REST API clients?Ask HN: Is anyone using REST API code generator in production?
I'm aware of some comparisons conducted a while ago on some API code generators listed below but these comparisons seem to be outdated:
- apimatic.io: https://apimatic.io
- AutoRest: https://github.com/Azure/AutoRest
- Swagger Codegen: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
- OpenAPI-CodeGen: https://github.com/Mermade/openapi-codegen
- OpenAPI Generator: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
- go-swagger: https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
Is anyone using these tools in their environment? Any caveat?
20 points · Open discussionFew implementations add hypermedia support in the real world.
For one, Swagger is for humans not machines to consume. At it's core it is a way to standardize documentation that can be easily displayed to humans.
c# - https://github.com/Azure/autorest
Java -
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-parser/blob/master/RE...
And basically everything else.
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen/blob/master/R...
In Everything old is new again: MicroservicesAutoRest: OpenAPI Specification code generator
57 points · Open discussionMicrosoft actually writes a language-specific client generator AutoRest: https://github.com/Azure/autorest
I believe at this time the majority of the azure sdks are using it, so quite an investment has been made.
In A Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0Ask HN: Compare AutoRest, Apimatic and Swagger Codegen
Has anyone used AutoRest[1], Apimatic[2] or Swagger Codegen[3] to generate REST API clients in different langauges for production use? How's your experience so far?
Doing a simple Google search reveals the following comparisons, which seem outdated already:
http://blog.jongallant.com/2015/09/api-sdk-generators.html
http://apievangelist.com/2015/06/06/comparison-of-automatic-api-code-generation-to…
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/Azure/autorest
[2] https://www.apimatic.io
[3] https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
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