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Why would you want to do that in what is basically a human readable binary file and not in a readme? You seemed to stop at the for who and for what purpose. I
by mSparks 10y ago
Why would you want to do that in what is basically a human readable binary file and not in a readme?
You seemed to stop at the for who and for what purpose.
I can 'just' about see the case in something like nodeJS package.json files (that is the least of nodeJS's problems, but that's a whole other conversation). But a readme is a so much better option than having to troll through code comments.
- inimino 10y agoThe discussion above concerns why JSON isn't a good choice for configuration files. That's exactly because configuration files are not human readable binary files.
- mSparks 10y agoTBH. I find package.json files to be much much much much nicer files than configure.sh or settings.txt files, even a configure.py. And if that isn't the case for you, not like you don't have the choice.