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The intent is that standard tools would output alternative formats.
by scj 4y ago
The intent is that standard tools would output alternative formats.
- an1sotropy 4y agoRight; every file is just bytes but we get a lot of mileage out of libraries like libpng that parse those bytes into usefully structured info. And I was pondering what more could evolve to parse info from the command line. I think stdjson is insane yet awesome to ponder.
- dotancohen 4y agoI agree that a standardized structured format would be awesome, but I'm not convinced that JSON is it. And there should _not_ be more than one. One thing that I do like about JSON is that it is ubiquitous - and that makes up for a lot of its other faults. But I would like to see proposed use cases that JSON would not support beforehand, to clearly define where the limitations are, and what limitations the community is willing to accept.
- nishs 4y agoThe tool should instead provide an `--output=<format>` flag, where <format> is one of text (default), json, xml, etc.