General questions about the project

[hmil]

Hi there,

I found this project while researching lightweight alternatives to OpenAPI. All I want to do is add a little bit of safety to my APIs, and I found that OpenAPI is way overkill for my use case, too complex, poorly documented and with impractical codegen tools.

Therefore, JTD seems like a better starting point to just generate portable DTOs.

Looks like the project is barely getting started though, and I've got a few questions in my mind:

• How is JTD different from JSON-schema? On the surface, there seems to be a lot of overlap. Both of them let you define the shape of structured data, perform validation and even codegen.
• What other similar alternatives are you aware of, and how does JTD differentiate from them?
• How is the project governance structured? I suppose right now it's mostly you @ucarion working on it on the side. Are you getting any kind of support? What are your plans for the future?
• Why the .com extension? It makes the project look like it's a commercial product when in fact it is an open initiative. Would you consider switching to .org or similar?
• Does the spec support / plan to support YAML as a first-class input encoding? It is nowadays generally accepted that YAML should be used for machine/human interfaces, and JSON for machine/machine interfaces. As far as I can tell, JTD's primary application is machine consumption of human-written specs. Hence yaml seems more suited for this application than JSON.

Looking forward to your answers.