On 26/11/15 1:08 AM, Chris wrote:
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?
I've forgotten. But its in the N.G. and on Github.
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.
They looked at a lot of different options.
And yes SDL does have things like comments.
But it really doesn't matter now. This is the path that was chosen.
Either put up with it or code.
