I hate new DUB config format

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 16:00:39 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:04:35PM +0000, BLM768 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 22:20:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >It's more like "Do this, no need to argue". There's really no need,
> >and we're arguing too much over too little. -- Andrei
> 
> Is anyone else having flashbacks to Phobos vs. Tango?
> 
> In this case, as much as I like how the SDL syntax is more readable
> (at least to me), the history of Phobos shows that standardization
> wins in most cases. I don't know if we want to yank the syntax right
> out of DUB, but we could at least deprecate it until things settle
> out.
> 
> Or, hey, we could use XML. ;)
[...]

Please, no. XML is unreadable write-only stuff that should only be
read/written by machine, it's not suitable as a *user* interface.


T

-- 
Customer support: the art of getting your clients to pay for your own incompetence.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list