Re: Is Lua used as a data representation language?
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- Subject: Re: Is Lua used as a data representation language?
- From: dcharno <dcharno@...>
- Date: 2013年1月05日 10:48:39 -0500
On 01/05/2013 05:03 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
There is an ongoing discussion in the NetBSD community about the "right" language for
> representation. The idea is to replace an older system called
"proplib". The
discussion rotaes a bit around JSON and Lua as possible candidates, with probably
a majority leaning towards JSON because it is smaller (some say a factor of ~16
compared to Lua).
Where does the factor of 16x come from?
I've been interested in Lua as a config format but haven't had luck with
proposals at work. I've always thought the ability to provide hooks or
extensions from a config file would be powerful.