From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: using Cuirass to track a guix packages' git
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:59:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y42c2q26.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h995c0r2.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:42:09 +0200")
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
> Mathieu Lirzin writes:
>
>> David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:
>>
>>> I think the web interface and the json API are two different
>>> "projects".
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Oh! Then why choose json (poor-man's-sexps?) over sexps? I'm mostly
> just using sexps with read and write, and pipe through json translators
> when crossing the border to the javascript realm.
AIUI JSON usage is not limited to JavaScript since almost every
programming language has a parser for it. IMO, this is its main
advantage which overcomes its technical limitations.
However if using both S-EXP and JSON is possible without adding
complexity we could provide them both throught HTTP.
--
Mathieu Lirzin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 22:10 using Cuirass to track a guix packages' git Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-20 19:49 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-22 22:03 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-23 13:11 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-23 13:44 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-23 15:25 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-23 15:39 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-23 17:59 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-23 19:05 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-23 22:36 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-23 22:43 ` David Craven
2016-09-23 22:59 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-09-24 5:42 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-28 11:59 ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
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