I hate new DUB config format

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 2 08:15:04 PST 2015


On 11/25/2015 06:53 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.
>

This whole debate is completely moronic.

1. With DUB, which format is "default" means next to nothing.

2. I don't know where in the world you've gotten the idea you can no 
longer just copy-paste deps. That's patently BS.

3. SDLang is fucking trivial. Any programmer worth at least half their 
salt (ie anyone here, including you) could've learned it in same time 
you've already spent bellyaching about it.

4. Fuck "standard/popular/common". Seriously, fuck it. That sort of 
bullshit nonsense attitude is EXACTLY why half our industry is as 
completely fucked as it is with complete and total shit like PHP, JS, 
Node, JVM, Angular, JS Toolkit #five-billion-and-one, gaudy metro 
colors, meaningless hieroglyphs, walled gardens, web pages with 
near-zero content just empty space and screen-sized images with a quick 
slogan or two, text entry boxes that are *literally* slower than a 
goddamn Apple II, etc, etc etc... Seriously, enough of this goddamn 
"fashion before engineering" bullshit. That load of crap is why I'm 
right on the verge of completely jumping ship from what's left of this 
goddamn industry. If we start pulling that shit as a matter of course 
here too, I'm fucking gone, good riddance.



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