Thrift

Thrift is an open source interface design language created in 2007.

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Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol that is used to define and create services for numerous languages. It is used as a remote procedure call (RPC) framework and was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development". It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build cross-platform services that can connect applications written in a variety of languages and frameworks, including ActionScript, C, C++, C#, Cappuccino, Cocoa, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Node.js, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. Read more on Wikipedia...

Thrift website
Thrift Wikipedia page
There are at least 447 Thrift repos on GitHub
Thrift first developed in Apache
file extensions for Thrift include thrift
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 3k users using Thrift in 4k repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Thrift
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Thrift
See also: (19 related languages)ActionScript, C, C#, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, JSON, SOAP, XML, ASN.1, Protocol Buffers

Example from the web:

enum PhoneType {
 HOME,
 WORK,
 MOBILE,
 OTHER
}

struct Phone {
  1: i32 id,
  2: string number,
  3: PhoneType type
}

service PhoneSvc {
  Phone findById(1: i32 id),
  list<Phone> findAll()
}

Example from Linguist:

struct PullRequest {
  1: string title
}

Example from Wikipedia:

enum PhoneType {
  HOME,
  WORK,
  MOBILE,
  OTHER
}

struct Phone {
  1: i32 id,
  2: string number,
  3: PhoneType type
}

service PhoneSvc {
  Phone findById(1: i32 id),
  list<Phone> findAll()
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓

Thrift - Interface design language

Language features