TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

Re:TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language by nikeee on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:52PM (#36022710)

I like the idea of JSON5, but it allows a bit too much in my opinion. For example, why add the single quote? Why hexadecimal identifiers?

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Re:TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language by veidr on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:05PM (#36022835)

JSON is trash and should never be used in any human-interfacing context, so I'm super skeptical that there's any utility in trying to fix it; that would just delay its demise, to the detriment of humankind.

But if you did want to fix JSON, the yes, trailing commas and comments are the absolute minimum bar, but single quote is actually probably the the third absolute must-fix.

The reason is just that so much JavaScript tooling is now configured to autoformat code (including the JSON bits) to swap " to ', thanks in large part to Prettier (which also should almost never be used, sigh, but that's a topic for another HN bikeshed...)

hexadecimal identifiers, yeah, nah

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Re:TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language by NoahKAndrews on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:01PM (#36023778)

Prettier defaults to double quotes.

I'm curious what you have against Prettier.

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Re:TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language by evntdrvn on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:46PM (#36024137)

You might be interested to check out JSONC and JWCC/HuJSON

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-commen... https://github.com/tailscale/hujson

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