Re: [Json] Human JSON (Hjson)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Christian Zangl wrote:
>> Can't be.  YAML *contains* JSON.
>> If you like JSON, you already like YAML, because every JSON file is a
>> YAML file.
> 
> Hjson *contains* JSON, every JSON file is also a Hjson file, so you must
> like Hjson?

Since you ask what I like:

HUMANS SHOULD NOT BE WRITING JSON *), so, no, I don't like JSON as a
configuration file format.

The people I have met who didn't know about YAML usually liked
.ini-style **) configuration file formats, as exemplified by TOML ***).

Since my experience is that every configuration file format turns more
and more complex over time, I prefer to base them on a powerful generic
format such as YAML.  YAML is also pretty good in noise reduction.
(And, as I noted, if you are really itching to write JSON, or have some
JSON data that you just want to paste in, you can do so in YAML.)

As another data point, CBOR diagnostic notation is based on JSON.
Ouch; this is actually meant to be written and read by humans.
The CDDL draft then goes ahead and defines an extended diagnostic
notation to reduce some of the hurt (not needed for CDDL itself, but it
helps for notating CBOR examples, e.g., in the COSE draft).

Grüße, Carsten

*) https://mumble.org.uk/blog/2014/09/23/json-and-the-arguments/ and a
million other people have found that out...

**) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file

***) https://github.com/toml-lang/toml