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Why not use XML? Fairly similar to HTML, which almost everyone has probably seen/used at least once, and it's kinda easy to understand. It supports comments, at
by arielcostas 4y ago
Why not use XML? Fairly similar to HTML, which almost everyone has probably seen/used at least once, and it's kinda easy to understand. It supports comments, attributes and elements and schemas (which help with validation, editor autocompletion and documentation), and is also widely supported in many languages.
- billconan 4y agotoo verbose. not ergonomic.
- wronglyprepaid 4y agoXML is incredibly complicated to process correctly, the support for various features, like schema validation, is also rather limited.
- arielcostas 4y agoMost languages already include an XML in their standard library, you don't need to implement it yourself
- 8lall0 4y agoHell no, horrible language, too verbose.
- arielcostas 4y agoI prefer XML's verbosity to a full disfunctional language like YAML where adding an extra space might break your config