[erlang-questions] JSON for STDLIB

[Éric Pailleau]

Hi,
I agree but there is some lack however, zip/gzip exists in Otp, but not bzip nor lzma2.
As it is ports, it should be done at core level while json can be external libraries. 
Those compressions formats are now very common in particular lzma2. Really missing.
Regards 

Le 7 sept. 2015 09:39, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> a écrit :
>
> On 09/07/2015 03:34 AM, Theepan wrote:
> > Team,
> >
> > Is there any reason why a JSON library is not included into Erlang/OTP
> > releases? Since it was initially planned for telco systems, it includes
> > ASN.1 library. It has some other transfer-format libraries as well.
>
> ASN.1 isn't just a "transfer-format", it's something OTP itself *uses*. 
> Without the ASN.1 application, there would be no public_key application, 
> and therefore no SSL, to name one.
>
> JSON would be just sitting there. What's the point?
>
> Another argument against it is one you cited in your email: there are 
> already a variety of open source JSON libraries. Each has different 
> properties and are useful to different people. Why would you include one 
> and basically doom the others? Which one would you bundle? Will that 
> choice make sense to everyone?
>
> Finally, I'm not sure what's the point? If you are using Erlang.mk, to 
> use jsx, you need to add this single line to your Makefile:
>
> DEPS = jsx
>
> If jsx was part of OTP, you would need to add this single line to your 
> Makefile:
>
> OTP_DEPS = jsx
>
> The advantage of bundling it in OTP are not obvious, to say the least.
>
> In general I believe OTP should reduce the number of libraries it comes 
> with, not increase it. It's easy to find a library fitting your needs 
> nowadays. Erlang.mk for example has 470 packages and you can search them 
> in one easy command: make search q=json
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Loïc Hoguin
> http://ninenines.eu
> Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
> A book about software development using Erlang
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