ADL formalisms

[joostholslag]

@borut.jures

however Silje and Thomas are saying there are “many” editors who edit archetypes by hand. It would be great to hear what “many” means in this case and if they only make “small” changes by hand (which wouldn’t be that painful in JSON).

Very arbitrary, but:
My best guess would be it’s maybe a hundred to a thousand people worldwide. Most of those will be developers who (arguably) would be ok with editing json as well. The main audience should be clinical modellers, but most (>90-99% of those) will only edit using a GUI.

@joostholslag

I don’t think writing adl by hand to produce an archetype is really done by anyone. Mostly it’s doing 99%from a gui editor. But making specific edits for edge cases or tool failure by hand in adl is a key requirement imho.

So yes, it will mostly be small changes. But already the jump from GUI to editing ADL by hand is huge. I think the jump to JSON will be too discouraging for people like me. FWIW I edited quite a few (>10) yaml files, but never json, it feels just too hostile/ machine like.