On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 11:57:30 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 26/11/15 12:53 AM, Suliman wrote:
I find the SDLang format much cleaner to use than JSON
But it's dead format! Nobody do not use it. JSON easy to read,
there is
a lot of it's checkers and formating tools.
Yes, it's not perfect, but now it's _standard_. Personally I'd
prefer
yaml, because it's much easier to read for humans.
But what we will do with SDL? Who know how to parse, validate
it with D,
and with another language? Even ini is better, because
everybody know it.
I agree with you on all points, the best part is YAML is pretty
standard now for Java. So lots and lots of familiarity there.
But at the end of the day. It was decided to go with SDL, even
with its spec being incomplete and hardly anybody uses it.
On what grounds?
So for the time being, I just use JSON as a form of protest.
After all, just because I don't like it, doesn't mean it should
effect other people. Unless of course the decision is made to
drop json. Then oh boy competition time!
Why was SDL agreed upon when it's a niche thing? Wouldn't it make
more sense to have JSON that allows comments? Comments are
something that's really missing in JSON. (Does SDL have them
though?).
It'd be good to have a conversion tool JSON <=> SDL.
