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Fixing JSON

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139 points robin_reala | 1 comments | 20 Aug 16 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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amyjess ◴[20 Aug 16 20:57 UTC] No.12328277[source]▶
JSON is fine for what it was intended to be: a way to serialize fundamental data structures to disk or over the network.

If you want something optimized for human editing, such as for a configuration file or a DSL, we already have YAML for that. Hell, JSON is a valid subset of YAML, so you don't even need two parsers.

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1. alayne ◴[21 Aug 16 05:59 UTC] No.12329624[source]▶
YAML including the entirety of JSON is not a positive argument in favor of YAML.