I hate new DUB config format

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 11:57:30 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> On 26/11/15 12:53 AM, Suliman wrote:
>>> I find the SDLang format much cleaner to use than JSON
>> But it's dead format! Nobody do not use it. JSON easy to read, 
>> there is
>> a lot of it's checkers and formating tools.
>>
>> Yes, it's not perfect, but now it's _standard_. Personally I'd 
>> prefer
>> yaml, because it's much easier to read for humans.
>>
>> But what we will do with SDL? Who know how to parse, validate 
>> it with D,
>> and with another language? Even ini is better, because 
>> everybody know it.
>
> I agree with you on all points, the best part is YAML is pretty 
> standard now for Java. So lots and lots of familiarity there.
>
> But at the end of the day. It was decided to go with SDL, even 
> with its spec being incomplete and hardly anybody uses it.

On what grounds?

> So for the time being, I just use JSON as a form of protest.
> After all, just because I don't like it, doesn't mean it should 
> effect other people. Unless of course the decision is made to 
> drop json. Then oh boy competition time!

Why was SDL agreed upon when it's a niche thing? Wouldn't it make 
more sense to have JSON that allows comments? Comments are 
something that's really missing in JSON. (Does SDL have them 
though?).

It'd be good to have a conversion tool JSON <=> SDL.