clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 11, 2021
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol
> First released in 1997, Rebol was designed over a 20-year period by Carl Sassenrath, the architect and primary developer of AmigaOS,Oh! TIL.

#rebol #amiga
Rebol - Wikipedia

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 12, 2021
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> From Carl Sassenrath, the creator of #Rebol ( www.rebol.com/ ), which was the inspiration for #JSON ( www.json.org/json-en.html ), comes the #ASON data format and the related #Altscript ( altscript.com/ ) language.

>> ASON is what JSON was supposed to be. It provides an extended set of data-types written in a natural way, the concept of symbols (variables), a cleaner leaner syntax, machine-independent executable expressions, and lightning-fast parsting input to your favorite programming language.> Well, nothing is available for download yet, but he’s announcing that it is coming.‌@lnxw48a1
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Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 12, 2021
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@natecull The reason I brought up Rebol was because of this #AltScript / #ASON link that @lnxw48a1 posted the other day.

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Show threadIzzy SwartAug 12, 2021
@clacke @natecull actually, this reminds me. Nate: you would probably really like the project that inspired the PORDT approach I want to use for data replication over welkin terms:
https://replicated.cc/
Replicated Object Notation — RON

Show threadNate Cull (.social)Aug 12, 2021

@syntacticsugarglider @clacke

Interesting project! I can't say I love its native serialization format. But that's okay. I guess people can use JSON instead.

Show threadNate Cull (.social)Aug 12, 2021

@syntacticsugarglider @clacke

I keep going on about syntaxes and serialization formats because _we spend so much of our digital lives inside them_ that we should probably try to make them more pleasant than they currently are.

Show threadIzzy Swart
@natecull @clacke instead I want to not spend time working directly in serialization formats. preserve structure in your editing environments. use those that are appropriate for the semantics of data you operate on, and compose them in the same way you compose that data.
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