On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 15:55 +0200, Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d wrote: > 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.
XML has clearly failed as a build specification language. I offer you Ant and Maven as evidence for the persecution of people who inflict XML as a user written file format. Clearly I am biased, but I like internal DSLs on dynamic languages for build specification. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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