Thanks for checking out Fern! Smithy is an awesome library, and we love the VSCode extension that makes it easy to click around in the Smithy files. We built

Thanks for checking out Fern! Smithy is an awesome library, and we love the VSCode extension that makes it easy to click around in the Smithy files. We built our own spec because there's a lot of cool SDK features that aren't supported in Smithy. For example: - Audiences. It should be easy in the spec to specify some endpoints as "internal only" to include them in the internal SDKs, but exclude them from the external SDKs. - Per-endpoint errors. Smithy doesn't have a concept of specifying which non-200 responses a particular endpoint might return. It's super helpful in the SDKs to know which errors might be thrown from a particular endpoint. - Pagination. It should be easy in the spec to specify that an endpoint is paginated, so the SDK is able to page through results easily (e.g. for-await in TypeScript). Note: this is a WIP and not yet released in Fern. Having our own spec also lets us be more creative with the feature set we provide. For example, we want to add support for websockets and webhooks. All that said, we're not aiming to be a competing standard. There's so much tooling already for these different specs, and it should be easy to convert between them. Our Smithy->Fern converter is in development so that Smithy users can take advantage of our SDK generators.