{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1","id":58151257,"number":1,"title":"How about something other than .properties syntax?","user":{"login":"munificent","id":46275,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent","html_url":"https://github.com/munificent","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":44,"created_at":"2015-02-19T00:25:57Z","updated_at":"2015-03-30T16:52:33Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm not a big fan of the \".properties\" syntax. I don't think anyone outside of the Java ecosystem is even aware of it, and, as far as I can tell, it's official specification is just a [doc comment](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.Reader)) in the Java API.\r\n\r\nMost egregiously, properties files are [specified to require ISO 8859-1 character encoding](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.InputStream)). That's gross. Everyone these days prefers UTF-8.\r\n\r\nHow about we just use JSON? That's the default config file format for the web these days.\r\n\r\nIf that's a pain for the VM to parse, another option would be to say that the file must contain a Dart map literal with string literal keys and values. That would presumably let the VM use the existing lexer and parser on it.\r\n\r\nThoughts?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/comments/87748321","html_url":"https://github.com/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1#issuecomment-87748321","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/issues/1","id":87748321,"user":{"login":"munificent","id":46275,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent","html_url":"https://github.com/munificent","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/munificent/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-30T16:52:33Z","updated_at":"2015-03-30T16:52:33Z","body":"> I don't think anyone has any serious objections to JSON?\r\n\r\n@iposva-google might."}}