On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 18:31:42 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
If only it supported comments...
Yeah, that's what I hate about JSON. It's pretty good overall, but that's a huge deficiency IMHO - and I'd very much like to be able to put comments in my dub package files. So, in that respect, ASON seems like a definite improvement. However, I am a bit wary of creating a new file format. Maybe if it's good enough and marketed well enough, it could challenge JSON, but at the moment, it would just be for dub, which isn't so great.
The fact that it's backwards compatible with JSON would be useful for avoiding breaking existing dub packages, and it does sound like it's a better format, but the fact that it's just been created for this makes me leery. And even if we were to push it beyond dub and try and get it accepted more widely, it's new enough that I question that it won't need to be adjusted after further use, since it's rare that anything complicated is done right the first time.
So, I'm not necessarily against the idea of using ASON, but I'm not sure that it's a good idea either.
- Jonathan M Davis
