[gsoc] DUB - Ideas

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Saturday, 2 March 2019 at 18:22:01 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> Someone else mentioned TOML, too. Just looked it up. That's 
> also a very nice data language too, just like Tree and SDLang 
> are. Hell, there's so much out there that just puts the 
> XML/JSON/YAML popular kids clique to shame. I find it 
> absolutely disgusting, shameful and frankly, professionally 
> negligent, that a *technical* field such as ours routinely 
> prioritizes and even promotes following the cool kids' table 
> over actual, freaking technical merit.


Well, to me the ONLY reasons DUB use SDLang and cargo use TOML is 
obviously... to make things as different as possible! It's just 
trying to be different for being different's sake.

Sociology explains this way more than any technical merit, we are 
prone to this in the D community because well it's an alternative 
language, it selects for people who likes alternatives.

This is the elephant in the room, why else would we argue (with 
so much passion) the technical merit of 20-lines recipe files?

And TOML is really tragic, I don't know if you have tried using 
it, I have and reverted to XML.