YAML and Configuration Files

Re:YAML and Configuration Files by brundolf on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:33PM (#28185478)

There are lots of ways to implement it. The problem is that one of JSON's strengths is its ubiquity: every language under the sun has half a dozen different battle-tested parsers for it. Clients and servers and everything in-between have first-class support out of the box. You can even paste it directly into JavaScript as valid code.

If anybody short of a standards body tries to expand the spec, you lose out on most of that.

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Re:YAML and Configuration Files by MichaelMoser123 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:04PM (#28185943)

i think you can possibly define how you want to use json for a configuration file; json by itself is not much more than javascript objects/maps, defined as a data format. I frankly don't think that you need to be too pious about standard compliance if dealing with a cofiguration format for your application.

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Re:YAML and Configuration Files by SigmundA on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:34AM (#28199280)

>json by itself is not much more than javascript objects/maps

And without comments or optional quoted keys single quotes or trailing commas, which makes editing by hand more work and IMO less readable.

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Re:YAML and Configuration Files by brundolf on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:42AM (#28186319)

Editors, for one, will be an issue

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