Re: Proposal: create XML based .gorm format: .xorm

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:41:06 +0200

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David Wetzel via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment 
wrote:
> I feel like XML is a format from the past. Why not use a JSON based one?

I would use neither, I would just use plists, our native format.
Actually, probably both plist as XML-encoded plists would work.

JSON is just a bad plist :) and has absolutely no type encoding.

Riccardo