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# 1. Introduction

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The cedarbridge language is a language designed for specifying message protocols with a focus on minimalism and a clean mathematical foundation. The language has the following notable features:

### 1.2. Features

- A carefully written language specification.
- A minimal data definition language based on algebraic sum and product types.
- Strong versioning as a core aspect of the language.
- A small, easily auditable codebase with a heavy use of modularity for correctness.
- An extensive automated test suite with high coverage.
- A small footprint; the generated Java code consists of trivial record definitions and incredibly simple and straightforward code to serialize and deserialize values.
- Platform independence. No platform-dependent code is included in any form.
- OSGi-ready
- JPMS-ready
- ISC license

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