# An API Design Discussion With API Blueprint, RAML And Swagger Creators

**Author:** kinlane  
**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2014/01/17/an-api-design-discussion-with-api-blueprint-raml-and-swagger-creators/

REST head Glenn Block ([@gblock](https://twitter.com/gblock)) over at [Splunk](http://www.splunk.com/) asked a simple question on Twitter Wednesday night, Who is using Swagger? I responded, kicking off a conversation that a day later included Tony Tam ([@fehguy](https://twitter.com/fehguy)) of [Swagger](http://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/), Uri Sarid ([@usarid](https://twitter.com/usarid)) of [RAML](http://raml.org/), and Jakub Nesetril ([@jakubnesetril](https://twitter.com/jakubnesetril)) of [API Blueprint](http://apiblueprint.org/).

After the fact, the conversation may be a little unwieldy to follow, but it contains enough insight and nuggets of information, I feel its worth publishing and hopefully continuing in other formats.

The conversation began on Twitter: