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So Yaml?

• seagreen 6y ago
  YAML's way, way more complicated that JSON. To pick one rough measure, the spec is about 7x as long. It includes a bunch of things that could be seen as negatives, such as nine(!) different ways to write multi-line strings (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a-string-over-multiple-lines/21699210#21699210 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a...). I don't have a single competitor to recommend, but JSON5, TOML, JSONC (mentioned in a sister comment), or something else along those lines might be better. I'd probably just go with whichever of those is popular in your community.
  • mpfundstein 6y ago
    i really like hashicorp hcl. more than json. (and yaml is TERRIBLE)
    • andybak 6y ago
      YAML might be terrible for the reasons given elsewhere but I really want something YAML-like (maybe TOML, maybe something else) For me, readability is king both for myself and because I sometimes want non-developers to be able to hand-edit files. Any curly brace format is a non-starter. Too much clutter, too easy to create invalid files that aren't obviously invalid at a glance. Significant white space does have the advantage of meaning exactly what it appears to mean and being intuitively understandable to most people.