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Can I ask why YAML wasn't good enough?

• chc 14y ago
  My thoughts exactly. YAML is a superset of JSON that already has all this stuff and more.
  • aseemk 14y ago
    I actually had no idea that YAML is a superset of JSON. Thanks! I'll look into it.
• erikpukinskis 14y ago
  Partly because JSON has the lovely feature of being able to just eval() it into an object in browsers.
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  • alcuadrado 14y ago
    That's not the right way to parse JSON, it's really insecure
    • Too 14y ago
      And slow, JSON.parse is magnitudes faster than using user-javascript to parse it yourself.
  • chc 14y ago
    That's not really a lovely feature in this day and age. If anything it's an unfortunate artifact, as the right way to deserialize JSON is JSON.parse().
• silentbicycle 14y ago
  For the same reason sexps weren't good enough, apparently.