Who cares about difficulty of writing parser, if it already exists for node? Who makes you use every yaml feature? Yaml is widely used in ruby/python. And i'm not sure, that it would be clever idea to invent another way for node. Every time i look into package.json, i remember about dying kittens.
понедельник, 28 мая 2012 г., 21:28:07 UTC+4 пользователь Matt Sergeant написал: > > The problem with YAML is it's a horrendously bloated spec, making it super > complex to write a correct parser (unless you shim a C library). It started > off as a really simple idea but then Ingy went a bit off the rails with > things it could do, and the spec ended up about 10 times longer than the > XML spec. Personally I don't like complex formats. > > Matt. > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Vitaly Puzrin wrote: > >> I'd like like to separate 2 questions. Your work is great, and json >> really worth to be improved. For example, it's convenient, when >> you need to keep things simple (for very small files), or keep speed very >> fast. >> >> The second question, about bad yaml uptake, is ralated to lack of good >> libraries for node.js. Just because project is still young. >> Some libs are quite complicated, and takes a lot of time to do. But we >> did pyyaml port, and you can play with it here >> https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml (there is online demo). I can bet, >> that once you start use yaml, you will newer wish to return back :) >> >> понедельник, 28 мая 2012 г., 18:13:40 UTC+4 пользователь Aseem Kishore >> написал: >>> >>> Great question. I actually didn't know until after I published this that >>> YAML is a superset of JSON. Other than that, I didn't really consider YAML >>> only because it doesn't seem to have very good uptake in JS-land. >>> >>> Looking at it a bit now, though, I think there might be some value in >>> incremental improvements to JSON, where the syntax is still valid >>> JavaScript, rather than a different and much larger syntax. >>> >>> Aseem >>> >>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Vitaly Puzrin wrote: >>> >>>> Why not to just use YAML :) ? >>>> >>>> понедельник, 28 мая 2012 г., 6:32:23 UTC+4 пользователь Aseem Kishore >>>> написал: >>>> >>>>> I love JSON, but writing it by hand has always been a pain. >>>>> >>>>> Needing to (double-)quote keys, not being able to document the data >>>>> with comments, and not having support for trailing commas or multi-line >>>>> strings -- all of which are available and work perfectly well on modern >>>>> ES5 >>>>> engines, including Node. >>>>> >>>>> After stewing on this for over a year, I bit the bullet today and made >>>>> this idea a reality: a "JSON5" parser that supports these and other ES5 >>>>> features in JSON. >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/aseemk/**json**5 <https://github.com/aseemk/json5> >>>>> >>>>> It's built off of Douglas Crockford's own eval()-free JSON parser, and >>>>> it's available now on npm as "json5". >>>>> >>>>> I'd love to get your guys' thoughts and feedback on this. And it'd be >>>>> a dream if package.json files could be written in this looser syntax one >>>>> day. =) >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Aseem >>>>> >>>>> >> -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
