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You're partially kidding but you're 100% right. Someone in another thread mentioned using some LISP or LISP-like language to solve this problem. Would somethi
by shahsyed 6y ago
You're partially kidding but you're 100% right.
Someone in another thread mentioned using some LISP or LISP-like language to solve this problem.
Would something like TOML make things better here?
What would have been the solution?
- pjmlp 6y agoXML, but I guess I won't get many friends for asserting that.
- secondcoming 6y agoNope. Json has schema validation too, and every language has a json parser
- pjmlp 6y agoJSON doesn't do comments.
- secondcoming 6y agoNot officially, but it's fakeable
- pjmlp 6y agoWhich for me is a design smell, why bother with workarounds when XML already offers me all the best tooling out of the box.
- secondcoming 6y agoFor me, xml is just too much, and when working with C or C++ (not t sure about rust) it's just a pain. Can your json schema file not serve as the documentation?
- pjmlp 6y agoWhy should it be a pain? Parsing XML is no different than parsing JSON, there are plenty of robust parsers available since around 2000. Mature libraries with plenty of experience deploying into production. Plus for small enough stuff, like configuration files, one can just plug XPATH as well, making the search for items even easier.
- jayd16 6y agoIf something like k8s implemented comments as specific comment fields that would actually be pretty useful. The fields could be parsed and show in GUIs.
- secondcoming 6y agoThat is the workaround, just add it as "comment":"comment text". Having one comment for each field in an object would get unwieldy though. Anther place for them is possibly in the json schema file.
- jiangplus 6y agoThen use HTML and extend the functionality with JSX
- pjmlp 6y agoUseless work when XML already has all the tooling available and battle tested in production.
- juped 6y agoI really regret disliking XML all those years ago, now that I've seen the alternative.
- rgoulter 6y agoDhall is an example of a configuration language. Its programs must terminate. It aims for safety, claiming that it can support safe evaluation of untrusted code. https://dhall-lang.org/ https://dhall-lang.org/ TBH, I have no experience with it. But, it sounds like if you need a configuration language with programmatic features, it would be more suited to the job than a general purpose programming language.