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The key difference is the target audience. The format's "UX", so to speak, is optimized for the target audience (machine or human). @jrockway makes an excellent
by korijn 7y ago
The key difference is the target audience. The format's "UX", so to speak, is optimized for the target audience (machine or human). @jrockway makes an excellent point.
- mark-r 7y agoWhy must those be mutually exclusive? There's value in being understandable by both.
- nitrogen 7y agoHaving comments in a "wire format" provides a means for the spec to become meaningless as random applications start using comments to convey information (or exfiltrate data) that other applications cannot parse correctly.
- mark-r 7y agoThere should be a special place in hell reserved for people who use comments to convey machine readable information. The whole point of a comment is to provide something that has no semantic meaning.