On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 00:30:07 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
I'm considering adding JSON5 support to std.json and want to know how well this would be received.
Considering this is something that has apparently existed for more than three years and this is the first time I'm hearing of it, I have a hard time justifying it's inclusion into Phobos. I have never once heard of any project using JSON5 and googling it brings up one negative blog post, the HN post which is full of negative comments, and every other result are language bindings.
I have to agree with all the negativity, it seems like a poor idea and calling it "JSON" is inappropriate. Also, std.json is slated for deprecation.
If you want a JSON5 D parser, I'd say go ahead and throw it up on code.dlang.org. What would be much more beneficial IMO is a YAML parser based on the API of http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json
