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Re:Why do so many tools have JSON config files? by climate_denier_ on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:21PM (#49541097)
I wish everyone would embrace Amazon's Ion format. Of the data serialization formats it seems the most reasonable with the exception that it can encode S-expressions (so like having data serialization within your data serialization), so it is a bit excessive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(serialization_format)

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Re:Why do so many tools have JSON config files? by happymellon on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:25PM (#49541138)
At a previous employer we tried using Ion, but when they stopped supporting our QLDB it was obvious that nothing else really used it and it was a dead end.

Shame.

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