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Can anyone tell me the motivation behind TOML? Why isn't JSON enough?
by derekchiang 14y ago
Can anyone tell me the motivation behind TOML? Why isn't JSON enough?
- mmahemoff 14y agoDiscussed in yesterday's thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634 The intention is to be easier for humans to read and write. Strict JSON requires a clutter of double-quotes, curly braces, parentheses and commas which have no place in a human-editable format.