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YAML and TOML both seem too complicated. Automatic date parsing? So many different ways to specify the same nested hash table? I like json because there's usual
by blt 8y ago
YAML and TOML both seem too complicated. Automatic date parsing? So many different ways to specify the same nested hash table? I like json because there's usually one obvious way to do what you want. It's a local minimum, like C and Lisp. It's really too bad about the comments.
- juancampa 8y agoYou might want to take a look at JSON5[1]. It supports comments among other minimal additions [1] https://json5.org/ https://json5.org/
- emodendroket 8y agoWay too much engineering time and energy has gone into handrolled, mutually-incompatible solutions for passing dates in JSON.