Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
by web007 on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:23AM
(#19657890)
I would 100% rather edit JSON (in vanilla vim) than ever touch YAML again in any editor I've used. It has weird rules for what whitespace is significant and what indent level I need for things, versus JSON where % will match quotes and parents and braces quite easily.
The only significant thing missing from JSON is comments. JSON5 or convention can solve that, so it's not as bad as you'd expect.
Re:JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
by tinco on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:49AM
(#19660070)
I'm sorry man, but it really doesn't. In over ten years of using yaml I haven't seen a single instance where the whitespace rules were in any way weird or counter intuitive.
The only significant thing missing from JSON is comments. JSON5 or convention can solve that, so it's not as bad as you'd expect.