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> How would I actually convince multiple people to use the exact same standard as me? The same way you agree on an XML schema? I don't know if I quite understa
by alpaca128 3y ago
> How would I actually convince multiple people to use the exact same standard as me?
The same way you agree on an XML schema? I don't know if I quite understand what you want to say - as I see it both are tree structured formats which means they both can represent the same information, just that s-expressions are less verbose but XML has more existing tooling for defining & validating a structure. Though the latter is more an aspect of the ecosystem than the format itself.
- jerf 3y ago"The same way you agree on an XML schema?" Yes. But my point is, there's a lot of people who seem to think just waving the word "s-expression" at the problem is a solution. If you have to sit down and carefully define the exact standard, the value over XML gets mitigated a lot, because the standard is going to need a lot of stuff in it. It has to at least be as complicated as JSON, and JSON is often not quite enough. You can't just say "why don't we use s-expressions" as if that's an argument on its own. But the reality is JSON ate that space anyhow. There's no room for something that's "like JSON, but not really" anymore.