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title:      "RAML"
ring:       hold
quadrant:   languages-and-frameworks

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Since the RAML project has decided to [join](https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/api-dev/open-api-raml-better-together/) the OpenAPI initiative and the RAML ecosystem lacks further development and additional tools, we decided to  use and recommend using ["OpenAPI specififcation (OAS)"](/tools/open-api.html) as description standard instead.

RAML still provides advantages in modeling an API through it's more expressive modeling language and can produce OAS