On 24 April 2012 12:53, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
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.
yeah. lets store our metadata in SQL syntax.. so we are closer to SQL databases.. LOL :)
and even more by using GitHub for code repository.
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.