On 31/07/20 17:26, John Snow wrote:
> I saw the critique that we still use JSON-ish for the runtime QMP
> protocol, and moving the QAPI IDL to a standard wouldn't remove all
> instances of a custom format from our tree.
Sorry, but "still using JSON" is not a critique that makes any sense.
99% of the websites you use daily use JSON as their RPC
frontend-to-backend language; OpenAPI is essentially JSON over HTTP.
There must be something good in JSON.
Whenever you hear a complaint about "using JSON", it's actually a
complaint about bindings for your language, which can be a sensible
critique: gRPC is essentially {protobuf,FlatBuffers} over HTTP/2 plus a
boatload of language mappings. Unfortunately C is not one of those
mappings.
Paolo
