use the input/output JSON description

[snd]

https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-the-compiler.html#compiler-input-and-output-json-description

it's uniform over solc and solcjs whereas the remaining cli interface isn't and it's a pain to normalize

this also will have the advantage of being able to use compiler outputs (from ethabi use_contract for example) without touching the filesystem to hold generated files

[snd]

solcjs support for the solc standard json I/O interface is broken ethereum/solc-js#126

so it's either dropping solcjs support for the time being or not using standard json and messily normalizing the differences : /

[snd]

will revisit once ethereum/solc-js#126 is fixed.

for the time being i'll not use the JSON description and rename files after solcjs compilations to make it "compatible" with solc

[insipx]

I'm not sure if this is entirely what you are talking about, but I'm working on something like this here: https://github.com/ethdbg/edb/blob/compiler/compiler/src/solidity/standard_json.rs

With the StandardJSON types here:
https://github.com/ethdbg/edb/tree/compiler-refactor/solc_api
(this is a very early version, I only just started working on it, and am not handling any errors yet)

If that is what you're talking about, I'd gladly do a PR once I'm finished with it for my proj