YAML is not a viable alternative to JSON for these reasons and more: https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html
TOML is what's needed, and it would also avoid a JSON/JSON5 confusion. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 12, 2017, at 15:01, J Decker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I didn't get that mail at all; I assume it was a mistaken private > response? > > Most likely, this is just a result of gmail not liking mail from people at > universities. > > But again, if people want a JSON superset for humans, that (*) has been > around for more than a decade, so I don’t know why another one has to be > invented every week (except that it is easy to invent one and it is a > pleasant alternative to actually working on something useful). > > Grüße, Carsten > > (*) YAML, in case you wondered. No, it doesn’t matter that it is a > different color of bikeshed than you might have imagined; other people > don’t like JSON5/HJSON/your-JSON-hack-of-the-week either. > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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