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"Data can be an interface" is a pretty good and very underrated insight, I think.

Note that it's not just 'compilers' as an example of extremely complicated systems that achieve interoperability and componentisation by fully specifying and exposing data: *the Internet* does this too. At multiple layers: physical, data-link, TCP/IP, HTTP, REST.

It's almost like data is actually the best interface.

https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/13/how-compilers-are-designed.html