> Hi Igor, > > It is pretty clear that JSON is slowly replacing even XML elsewhere and > if I for instance have to chose between XML and JSON, I'd certainly > choose later. Our chunk format is, well, ours only. VW is using XML, > others are using anything else.
In a really really bad way. Because the tags are used in a non sense way. You still have to parse method to get the selector :) So VW is far from an example. And we are not talking about the method format, just method metadata. > Something as neutral and as simple as > JSON-based format can therefore become a bridge even between us. > > JSON is now becoming defacto standard for any interoperability scenario > in cloud world, so IMO Dale did a right decision to choose it. We will > be much closer to other words with Smalltalk that way Not at all. Do you really think that somebody will be interested by Smalltalk just because metadata of methods are stored in JSON :) Come on. > and even more by > using GitHub for code repository.
