And I’ll show you YAML
(a continuation of this post)
YAML is pretty good for readability, pretty awful for writability
Rule of thumb: valid json is valid yaml. If you’re ever unsure, do it the old fashioned way.
I really don’t see how that’s true.
You’re telling me this is valid yaml?
{ firstName: “Intensely” }
How is that yaml?
Serializing? For serializing you probably want performance above all else. I’m saying this without checking any benchmark, but I’m sure yaml is more expensive to parse than other formats where indentation don’t have meaning.
For human readability: it has to be readable (and writeable) by all humans. I know (a lot of people) that dislike yaml, toml and XML. I don’t know of a single person that struggles to read/write json, there is a clear winner.
I don’t know why we’re fucking about trying to use text editors to manipulate structured data.
Yeah, it’s convenient to just be able to use a basic text editor, but we’re not trying to cram it all on a floppy disk here. I’m sure we could have a nice structured data editor somewhere for all those XML, JSON and YAML files we’re supposed to maintain every day.
JSON would be perfect if it allowed for comments. But it doesn’t and that alone is enough for me to prefer YAML over JSON. Yes, JSON is understandable without any learning curve, but having a learning curve is not always bad. YAML provides a major benefit that is worth the learning curve and doesn’t have the issues that XML has (which is that there is no way to understand an XML without also having the XSD for it)
