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Also becoming commonplace as a config file format.

• mercurial 13y ago
  Yeah. On the other hand, I find YAML much better for this kind of thing. JSON is readable and writable by hand, but it's not terribly nice.
  • Zikes 13y ago
    No doubt they both have their benefits, however in an environment particularly suited for working with JSON, like node.js, the additional overhead of a YAML (or other) parser may not be desirable.
    • mercurial 13y ago
      Why not? After all, since JSON is not a proper Javascript subset, you still need to parse it somehow. And as JSON is a proper subset of YAML, you should get by with a YAML parser.
      • Ygg2 13y ago
        I think JSON being a subset of yaml is one of THE biggest mistakes YAML made, second only to making YAML a serialization format.