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

History

APX v1.0

  • Developed in early 2014 with a toolchain implemented in Node.js.

  • Specification was never released in electronic form.

APX v1.1

  • Research project in 2015 with a toolchain implemented in Qt5.

  • Experimental only and was eventually replaced by APX IDL v1.2.

  • Specification was never released in electronic form.

APX v1.2

  • Developed in 2016-2017 with a toolchain implemented in Python 3.

  • Stable version used by all implementations.

  • Backwards compatible with APX IDL v1.0.

APX v1.3

  • In active development.

  • Full implementations in C and Python 3.

  • Backwards compatible with APX IDL v1.2 (with redefined 64-bit integers and explicit char encodings).