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I couldn't agree more!

Out of frustration with existing schema languages and tool support for them, I've been working on Piqi[1] which is concise, expressive and agnostic to data representation formats. It works for JSON, XML and Protocol Buffers.

[1] http://piqi.org

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I've been using Piqi on a side-project of mine and I must say, I'm horribly impressed (using piqi_rpc with erlang for a web service and javascript based client to retrieve/interact with the data). The only way it could be nicer is if there was the same sort of generator for javascript so I didn't end up having to check/enforce the format at all.

Didn't realize you hung out on HN, so many thanks and great job.

ismarc, thank you for the comment! I really appreciate it -- I didn't know anyone else was using Piqi-RPC (other than myself).

I'd like to know more about your use case and the need for JavaScript generation. I'm open to new ideas. Could you please contact me at alavrik@piqi.org Thanks!

That looks very cool. I'll look at it, and maybe steal a few ideas :). I've been working on a data language myself in my spare time, mostly concentrating on generative structures like conditionals and loops and a syntax-independent data model. But Piqi looks to be a lot more ambitious, not to mention mature.

Thanks! Feel free to reuse as many ideas as you like :) It took me more than 2 years to get it there -- it is by far the toughest system I've ever designed.

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