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technomancy · 2015-01-15 23:56:43+00:00

Sort of, except JSON is a fair bit worse since you can't have comments to explain why things are the way they are.

aceBacker | karma 51 | avg karma 3.19 · | 2020-10-23 18:47:01

The only problem with json is that you can't do comments with the default implementation.

yjftsjthsd-h | karma 28510 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2023-09-20 23:49:31

I'm fine with JSON except it doesn't officially do comments, but that's a big deal IMO

dvh | karma 5252 | avg karma 3.33 · | 2021-02-23 07:18:02+00:00

I agree. Also if json had comments, people would start putting data in comments so soon you would have to parse comments as well. Then someone would ask for ' for strings and whole json would turn into garbage.

chopin | karma 3564 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2022-11-29 04:05:55

If JSON had comments, I'd be fine with it.

ChrisSD | karma 7042 | avg karma 4.64 · | 2019-08-17 22:45:23+00:00

Except that JSON doesn't have anything like processing directives or even comments.

geerlingguy | karma 19554 | avg karma 5.95 · | 2019-08-18 19:12:03+00:00

Or commenting JSON?

jameslk | karma 5962 | avg karma 6.0 · | 2018-06-20 18:44:32+00:00

My biggest complaint with JSON is the lack of support for comments. For that reason, it's hard to take it seriously for human-maintained configurations.

cozzyd | karma 5602 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2024-06-25 02:29:00

JSON is a terrible configuration format since it doesn't support comments.

glhaynes | karma 8277 | avg karma 3.73 · | 2013-08-02 17:28:54+00:00

If crap design like JSON is the right engineering choice sometimes (and I agree that it is), that seems like an argument that adding comments in this crappy way may sometimes be the right engineering choice.

homero | karma 812 | avg karma 0.77 · | 2018-06-21 12:51:50+00:00

I love json but despise the fact it doesn't support comments

adamc | karma 3255 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2023-04-06 09:11:53

JSON is great, but I surely wish it supported comments. That's the nature of its failings: too minimal.

mrtweetyhack | karma 14 | avg karma 0.01 · | 2020-10-04 20:13:50+00:00

So you're saying JSON doesn't support comments

rmc | karma 15660 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2011-06-23 03:41:31

JSON is an example of 'worse is better'.

joelthelion | karma 3754 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2017-05-11 15:07:09+00:00

Json is completely fine. It's just too bad it doesn't have any support for comments. Maybe a future revision could add it?

quotemstr | karma 7442 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2019-12-28 15:07:16

I think JSON would be vastly improved if it were to just allow comments. Maintaining configuration in JSON is unnecessarily painful due to this pointless feature gap.

marcosdumay | karma 27273 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2021-07-19 13:03:00

Hum... JSON is quite easy to write. Too bad the lack of comments makes it unmaintainable.

As the OP said, the quest for the perfect data language is still on.

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koffiezet | karma 621 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2018-06-21 09:52:06+00:00

You can, but you lose the possibility of comments, and writing JSON by hand is also a pain in the ass...

mrlala | karma 33 | avg karma 0.06 · | 2020-03-10 12:29:27

Sure doesn't look like it..

I agree- that's why json is honestly great. I avoided it for the longest time, but now I totally see the appeal.

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lolive | karma 1015 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2018-05-08 23:01:26+00:00

The point is that all those problems are strictly worse with plain JSON.