Use case 8

Language support

(mbtaylor)

A developer wants to provide a data-access library for the data format in a currently unsupported language (some specific examples to consider: C-friendly languages, JVM-based languages, Javascript, some language yet to be invented). Data access should be efficient and appear natural from the language in question.

If the library only needs to support a subset of the capabilities of the data format (for instance, only to read image data), the developer does not want to include much implementation or API specific to those capabilities not required (for instance, spectral data models).

The developer may want to write data access code from scratch rather than using an existing "standard" or "official" implementation. This might be because the standard implementation is unsupported or not well supported on the language/OS platform in question.