APX IDL
APX IDL is an Interface Definition Language (IDL) created and maintained by Conny Gustafsson.
Previously this language was known as APX Text but has since been renamed to APX IDL.
Versions
- APX IDL v1.2 (Stable)
- APX IDL v1.3 (In development)
History
APX v1.0
- Developed in early 2014 with a toolchain implemented in Node.js.
- Specifaction was never released in electronic form.
APX v1.1
- Research project in 2015 with a toolchain implemented in Qt5.
- It was experimental only and was eventually scrapped in favor of APX IDL v1.2.
- Specifaction was never released in electronic form.
APX v1.2
- Developed in 2016-2017 with a toolchain implemented in Python3.
- Stable version used by all implementations.
- Backwards compatible with APX IDL v1.0.
APX v1.3
- Currently in development (probably released at end of 2020 or early 2021).
- Toolchain in Python3 with some utilities written in C.
- Backwards compatible with APX IDL v1.2.