Am 26.08.2014 15:37, schrieb Kagamin:
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 13:28:28 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 19:35:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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.
Well, formats are created if existing formats are suboptimal. JSON is
not a general-purpose format, it was designed to be locked on
javascript parsers.
If we want a popular markup language at some expense to save people from
learning new language, it should be XML - it's more popular, than
anything else.
XML may pass the popularity test, but utterly fails at providing a more
concise and usable experience. As far as I'm concerned, it's about
finding the most "usable" language among those that are *decently* popular.
