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[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago

I have unironically been preaching the powers of text and JSON, and have some converts. Universal compatibility is great.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Json is a garbage format for anything that's meant to ever be touched by a human. At least use yaml or json5.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In the first paragraph of JSON5's site:

It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication.

YAML is not supported by a lot of enterprise software (example: Azure pipelines supports it but Power Automate does not). JSON, XML, CSV, or failing that Text are the safe bets. We use a few options for reading or building presentation layers quickly. Ultimately the idea is to move data around in a way that is friendly to our current and future applications.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

It's absolutely trivial to convert either format to json if necessary. The real killer for me with json is the lack of comments. Human-maintained files absolutely need comments.

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