On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 01:14:11 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/25/2015 12:39 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
To be fair, they _didn't_ invent a new format. They just
picked one that's far
less well-known than what they were using before.
The energy poured into SDL would be more profitably directed
towards improving Phobos' json support.
The energy has already been spent. It's already supported.
Projects are already using it. This isn't something new.
Regarding other comments in this thread, *JSON support is not
going away.* If you prefer to use JSON, use it. There's no
problem here.
As for searchability, you'll find discussions in the vibe.d
forums where people refer to it as SDLang now rather than SDL to
avoid confusion with the game library. Type that into Google and
you're golden. It's no different than encouraging people to
search for DLang instead of D, so it's not a big deal.
There are plenty of us who prefer to use SDLang over JSON for our
config files. We do not want to see support for it taken away
when there's no need for it. It's a much cleaner format, IMO,
popular or not. Anyone who finds SDLang somehow abhorrent can
just use JSON and move on.
