dub: JSON, SDL, YAML, TOML, what color should we paint it ?

[Ahmet Sait]

On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 14:29:28 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
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I mostly agree with Steve and others in this thread that we 
should go with [JSON5](https://json5.org). We can make the JSON 
parser accept JSON5 with a fully backward compatible manner (just 
like you did with YAML) and hopefully deprecate SDL so there is 
one canonical format everyone use (even though we silently keep 
supporting SDL).

What I would like to mention is that DUB has this `add` command 
for automatically adding a dependency (e.g. `dub add vibe-d`), 
and it is extremely broken to the core: It completely overwrites 
your file discarding all the formatting and even comments in a 
`dub.sdl` while also reordering json fields in `dub.json` 
alphabetically. It should have never existed in it's current form 
and should be removed.