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HAL was created to be simple to use and easily applicable across different domains by avoiding the need to impose any requirements on how the project be structured. Maintaining this minimal impact approach, HAL has enabled developers to create general-purpose libraries which can be easily incorporated on any [[API]] that uses HAL.<ref name="rfc4627"/>
 
APIs that adopt HAL are generally more appealing to developers{{POV statement|date=March 2015}} because it simplifiessimplify the use of open source libraries and makes it possible to interact with the API using JSON or XML. The alternative would be having to develop a proprietary format which in turn forces developers to learn how to use yet another foreign format.<ref name="stateless">{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Mike|title=HAL - Hypertext Application Language A lean hypermedia type|url=http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html|accessdate=23 July 2014|date=2011-06-13}}</ref>
 
== Convention ==