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JSON?

• xelamonster 2y ago
  JSON but with the structure of YAML, would be nearly perfect to me. JSON was not designed for humans to read and write directly, it happens to be easy enough that it's quite common but it's not exactly a nice experience. Take that base and remove the need to quote key values, enforce indentation for clear structure and to remove the need for braces and commas (the no trailing commas rule in JSON kills me too), and support the markdown-like list syntax alternative and I think really that's all most people want out of YAML anyways. I don't understand or ever want to work with their references or variables or whatever the hell they add, any of that is much better off in code than in config as far as I'm concerned.
• paulv 2y ago
  The trailing comma thing gets me nearly every time I edit a json config file. I don't think json supports comments, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of folks.
  • xelamonster 2y ago
    Extra fun: there's now JSONC which does support trailing commas and comments, and projects will use it with a .json extension still because Microsoft would hate for anything to ever be clear and make sense.