lack of semantics gives you Worse is Better but it's a shell game around simplicity.
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Replying to @wycats
No, lack of semantics lets you choose your own semantics. Like untyped languages let you choose your own type system.
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Replying to @samth
works fine until GitHub chooses it's semantics and "simple" Ember code has to decide what to do with it.
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JSON is used in public APIs with general purpose clients.
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But it's the API that doesn't specify the semantics, not JSON. They were just pretending that JSON did the job for them.
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Replying to @wycats
But doing it in XML wouldn't help. Number encoding issues don't go away when you pretend numbers don't exist.
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Replying to @samth
"decode this like a number" is just laughable. I have battle scars.
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Replying to @wycats
An XML tag called "amount" is going to be just as bad.
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but nobody's gonna slurp it unconditionally into whatever number type is lying around.
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Replying to @wycats
I hope you don't really have that much trust in people. ;-)
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