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In today's world of a thousand package managers, why isn't there a package manager for datatype schemas? Then, when I'm looking for an "addressbook" schema, I c
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
In today's world of a thousand package managers, why isn't there a package manager for datatype schemas? Then, when I'm looking for an "addressbook" schema, I can just download the most popular one. It could include tooling/plugins to convert schemas to different data or programming languages, so create a Haskell datatype for "addressbook" or create the JSON representation of "addressbook".
- TuringTest 6y agoI think the Semantic Web was supposed to be that. Yet it was waaay too abstract for the majority of people, even programmers.
- joshxyz 6y agoSchema as a Service here we goo
- breck 6y agoSchema.org is probably the closest thing to that. I call the concept "Type the World" (https://breckyunits.com/type-the-world.html https://breckyunits.com/type-the-world.html) Here's an early hacky prototype called "World Wide Types" (WWT): https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20wwt https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20wwt