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I've been working on a library at work which provides a simplified API for a few underlying libraries (face recognition, text to speech, etc.).
My boss asked me the best way to describe this concept in English, and I couldn't find something that felt both succinct and adequately conveys what the library does.
The best I got was "an ease-of-use API for X".
Is there a better description for something like this?
Without knowing how your API looks, it's kind of a shot in the dark, but the term that came into my mind was facade
a facade is an object that serves as a front-facing interface masking more complex underlying or structural code. (Wikipedia)
I know that the definition refers to an object, not a whole API, but it may be suitable anyway.
