On 04/24/2012 01:06 PM, H. Hirzel wrote:
On 4/24/12, Igor Stasenko<[email protected]> wrote:
can you name just one which can be useful in this context???
what tools, except written in smalltalk and used by smalltalkers you
are expecting to use
with smalltalk source code stored in source code repositories?
JavaScript :-) in connection with Amber. And couchDB.
I do notice that Igor mentions a specific use case here, but let me
ignore that and just reflect on JSON in general:
And Riak. And quite a few other NoSQL dbs use JSON. And lots of RESTful
RPC backends tend to use JSON, we do in our C# backend here at my
customer. And almost all web APIs on the net use JSON.
And JSON pops up everywhere in fact. So personally, while I did actually
implement Tirade, JSON is still a very nice format due to its ubiquity.
The main reason I made Tirade was because JSON didn't handle linefeeds
in strings so I couldn't store source code in JSON in a reasonably
readable way. At least not per true JSON spec.
Also, Tirade supports more atomic Smalltalk datatypes. And since it
encodes keyword messages it simply offers more structure than JSON does.
And it is streamable. And perhaps one or two more things.
But in summary - JSON is generally a very good choice and IMHO Pharo
should be *great* at handling JSON. It's not going away :)
regards, Göran
