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Re:Data serialization by teekert on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:29AM (#17228698)
I'm not an expert, just a bio-data-scientist learning every day... But wouldn't Yaml be what you are looking for?
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Re:Data serialization by pletnes on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:34PM (#17229551)
Json is for machines, yaml is for humans, as a general rule. They’re mostly compatible feature-wise.
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Re:Data serialization by teekert on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:04PM (#17231780)
Yaml is well readable by a human but it's much to tightly defined to be "for humans". It's for machines but readable by humans I'd say. Plus it's got sets and you can embed csv's (just 2 things of the top of my head).
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Re:Data serialization by skolemtotem on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:04PM (#17230375)
And if I remember correctly, YAML is a superset of JSON.
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Re:Data serialization by strkek on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:11PM (#17233086)
Obligatory link to the "YAML sucks" repo:

https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks

If you ignore the flame-inducing title, it's just a table showing how different implementations parse YAML input in very different ways.

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Re:Data serialization by tr33house on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:03PM (#17229822)
you want to use protobufs
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