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Repeat after me: JSON is not a valid choice for human-editable configuration files.

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Quincy
Quincy  
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True. JSON files don't even support comments (!!)
Quincy
Quincy  
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@farseen for me it's the main sticking point. what about you, @zhenech ?
@zhenech
silverwizard
silverwizard  
The list syntax mandating ,s on all list items, except the last

That kind of violation of postel's law makes it a giant pain for humans
Quincy
Quincy  
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@silverwizard @farseen oh yeah, almost forgot about that
@silverwizard
Quincy
Quincy  
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@farseen @silverwizard I've used it, but it's kind of hard to get the syntax right
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I am a TOML evangelist who thinks YAML is read-only, writing is beyond finicky ime
zhenech
zhenech  
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@isotopp Python has a lot of nice corners. setup.py is not one of them.
@Kris
Johan Wärlander 🦀
Johan Wärlander 🦀  
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Exactly! I mean, who in their right mind would use anything else than deeply nested XML, with liberal use of attributes, namespaces, and unordered serialization when updating it after in-app changes are made?
rhalina
rhalina  
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JSON is not a valid choice for human-editable configuration files.
Bruno Ranieri
Bruno Ranieri  
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JSON is not a valid choice for human-editable configuration files.
Menno Deij - van Rijswijk 🏳️‍🌈
Menno Deij - van Rijswijk 🏳️‍🌈  
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neither is XML, yet here we are
silverwizard
silverwizard  
People who like JSON are obsessed with the idea that XML is bad which is the most annoying thing

1) XML is not as bad as JSON
2) who cares about XML, it's not 2001
silverwizard
silverwizard  
JSON is designed to not be readable at a glance and resist quick updates

XML is criticized for being too verbose
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Nah, when it is a {,[, or (, and how do you add a thing to a list? What if it's in the middle? What if at the end?

To be clear - if you run JS a lot, JSON makes a lot more sense, but that's an unrelated crime
mimi_vx
mimi_vx  
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@silverwizard @quincy @farseen wholesome agree with you, JSON is for machine write/read, yaml is somewhat human readable and TOML +- usable also for human writing
@Quincy @silverwizard
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