On 11/25/2015 11:29 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
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.
This would be a lot more sensible if dub were not the official package
and build manager. The way I look at it, it's a manifestation of a
systemic problem: I can't work on dub and I can't monitor decisions
regarding it. Yet that doesn't make it less official. So I need to trust
other people to mind it in a way that is aligned in broad strokes with
my view. If I say "well but that's very unlike my view" and I get back
"some of us prefer it a different way and that's the way it is" then
that trust is affected. -- Andrei
