On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 13:21:33 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 22:05:05 UTC, terchestor wrote:
On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 20:16:20 UTC, Minas Mina wrote:
SDLang is fine. If someone wants to use D, it won't be SDLang
that will stop him.
Keep calm and use SDLang.
No. STDLang is a terrible idea. Walter's arguments are right
on.
He argued that {"comment":"blabla"} is a comment, and the sad
thing is he's serious. That's a really shocking thing from
someone like him!
This argument make perfect sense. It's 30 freaking lines. A
simple workaround is just enough. It is shocking you don't get it.
And then he suggested we could just use a standard JSON parses,
totally ignoring the reasons SDL was introduced in the first
place, namely that comments can't be used in standard JSON, and
it forces commas and braces all over the place while
disallowing trailing commas.
Yeah, totally great reasons those were. We don't have nice
comments for this *very* *small* file. I know! I know! Let's use
a different language, preferably one that nobody else cares to!
The third argument I've seen from him boils down to that it's
an uncommon format (although at first he claimed it was
invented for DUB, which is clearly wrong). While this may be a
legitimate concern, it is a very minor one IMO.
So, how can you conclude these arguments "are right on"? In
fact, they're at best unimportant, but mostly non-sensical or
based on wrong assumptions.
Your lack of common sense and basic engineering mindset is
appaling.
