Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com...
by hyperpallium on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:40PM
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$ echo "1." | jq .
1
jq is great, but doesn't preserve float/int distinction. There may be other canonicalization details that pretty printers don't address.
It might be simpler to change jq and/or other pretty printers (though might be implementation or design reasons not to).
But the other advantage of a new project like SON is positioning not engineering, in our heads, not in the code: tool for the job. If so, the page should spend more time on what that job is (for when people search for that job).
And, as the jq example shows, tools not designed for this job mightn't do it exactly right.
EDIT I was reading offline, so didn't see the sibling reply.
It might be simpler to change jq and/or other pretty printers (though might be implementation or design reasons not to).
But the other advantage of a new project like SON is positioning not engineering, in our heads, not in the code: tool for the job. If so, the page should spend more time on what that job is (for when people search for that job).
And, as the jq example shows, tools not designed for this job mightn't do it exactly right.
EDIT I was reading offline, so didn't see the sibling reply.