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Show me a better text format for serializing (imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And I'll show you YAML

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

JSON for serialization all the way. It’s simple and to the point. It does one thing and does it well. There’s little room for annoying surprises. Any JSON can easily be minified and prettified back and forth. If you want it in binary format you can convert it to BSON.

Yaml is too much of a feature creep. It tries to do way too many things at the same time. There are so many traps to fall into if you’re not cautious enough. The same thing can be written in multitudes of ways.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yes, but whoever decided that json can't have trailing commas has my ire.

{ "a": 1,
  "b": 2,  &lt;-- nope
}

There was some other pitfall I can't remember around missing keys and undefined, too, but I can't remember it now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change to Haskell formatted commas and the problem goes away :D

{ "a": 1
, "b": 2
, "c":
    [ 3
    , 6
    , 9
    ]
}

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Where is the nearest fire to dump this comment in?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Trailing commas are supported in json5, as well as comments

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure you can have trailing commas...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't but some parser allow them. But those that do do not respect the standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know. Must be why I thought you could. Thanks.