json5 already added. Best, Oleg Slobodskoi
http://www.facebook.com/oleg.slobodskoi https://www.xing.com/profile/Oleg_Slobodskoi https://twitter.com/oleg008 https://github.com/kof Am 05.02.2014 um 13:37 schrieb Alex Kocharin <[email protected]>: > > 05.02.2014, 15:47, "zladuric" <[email protected]>: >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:43:25 PM UTC+1, Alex Kocharin wrote: >> >> 04.02.2014, 17:01, "Oleg Slobodskoi" <[email protected]>: >>> Am 04.02.2014 um 13:46 schrieb Alex Kocharin <[email protected]>: >>>> 1. Why JSON? This format was created for data serialization, and isn't >>>> suited for maintaining by humans. >>> We could support cjson (https://github.com/kof/node-cjson) or yml ... but I >>> am not sure that json is an issue here. I personally had never a need to >>> use something more expressive in this case, but I am open for it. >> YAML of course. It's the most sensible general purpose format used for >> config files (unless your tool is able to change that config on the fly in >> which case the issue starts to be complicated). >> >> >> Out of curiosity, where can one get informed on these things? >> >> Personally, I prefer json over yml. That way I never leave JavaScript way of >> thinking and encapsulating things. But I don't do all that much >> configuration, it's generally customizing pregenerated config files. I >> rarely produce packages, I mostly consume them. > > If you prefer json over yaml syntax, switch to json5 instead. It solves most > of the json issues, keeping common syntax the same. I didn't mention that > because it's not yet a standard, but I hope it'll be soon. > > For config files there are exactly two issues with json: > > 1. doesn't support comments > 2. doesn't support trailing commas > > Here are a few examples I started to collect recently, you can see for > yourself: > https://github.com/rlidwka/yapm/blob/master/changes/package-yaml.md#a-few-examples-why-you-should-not-use-packagejson > > Apart from comments, there are quite a few quirks there. Did you know that > JSON is not a subset of javascript? It creates a handful of issues as well. I > love it how \t, \b and other escape characters are supported, but \v don't. > And as everyone knows already, JSON isn't extendible and doesn't support > dates. Remember escaping "\/" and that history of how ASP packed Dates? That > was funny indeed. > > There are good parts in there too. For example, LDJSON is generally a very > good idea, and used wisely. > > YAML has its share of issues of course. It doesn't support tabs for > indentation (pretty stupid decision imho), has no block comments, and it's > hard to update it from an application without changing it's formatting. > > There is no ideal data format you know. Each one of them is used for > different things. JSON is good for what it does (it's client-server data > exchange). But unfortunately it's too easy to use (how do you like that you > can do require('./something.json'), but require('./something.yaml') is > officially deprecated?), so people misuse it quite widely. :( > >> > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
