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		aphextron on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) After spending the last week fiddling with YAML files, please do. White-space dependent config is a complete nightmare, and XML is generally overkill. JSON caught on for a very good reason; it is the most succint possible human and machine readable text based data format short of just writing S-expressions.

adrianhel on April 13, 2019 | [–]

Toml is so much better. Editing json with the default vim configuration is really error prone. But I'd rather have json than yaml.

h1d on April 13, 2019 | | [–]

Really tired of cutting the last element in an array and causes an error on that last little comma in json. TOML to the rescue.

wongarsu on April 13, 2019 | [–]

I far prefer reading and editing YAML over JSON.

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