I hate new DUB config format

[Matt Soucy via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/02/2015 07:29 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 22:57:31 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 20:45:33 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 16:15:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The issue is not with humans reading and writing SDLang files - like you said, the syntax is not hard, and besides - the default should be enough for most of the basic learning projects one can make, so by the time you actually need to edit dub.sdl you should know enough D to not be learning two things at once.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Where you looking for this:
>>
>> https://github.com/ikayzo/SDL.rb
> 
> Yes, and eventually I found it - when I searched with "Ruby Simple Declarative Language". My point was not that it doesn't exist, but that it much harder than it should have been to search for it.
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> BTW - I tried, just to see what I get, to search for a Python implementation:
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> "Python SDL", as expected, yields only results related to Simple DirectMedia Layer.
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> "Python Simple Declarative Language" the only related thing I find ikayzo's github page(which contains SDLang implementations for Java, .NET and Ruby - but not for Python).
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> And here comes the fun part:
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> "Python SDLang" does not find the SDLang implementation for Python - at least not on the first page.
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> But - the first 3 results are about an SDL implementation...
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> ... it's SDLang-D!
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> Yes, you got that right - I searched for something related to Python(!!!) and got a result for D. So yea, maybe SDLang wasn't created specifically for DUB, but it might as well have been. Either that, or D suddenly became more popular than Python. I'll let you judge which of these two alternatives is more probable.

The fact that sdl shares its name with the Simple DirectMedia Language doesn't really help matters...

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Matt Soucy
http://msoucy.me/

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