My one and only complaint about it is that it's still not officially stable (its version is 0.x), but that's the only reason why I'm not using it for everything.
As for putting it in JS core, I say no. TOML is not a good *interchange* format, and human-readable data formats (which see endless bikeshedding now) belong as libraries, not in core. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 16:42 Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote: > > > On Jul 12, 2017, at 22:20, Reinis Ivanovs <da...@untu.ms> wrote: > > > > YAML is not a viable alternative to JSON for these reasons and more: > https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html > > YAML isn’t an alternative to JSON, it is a superset of JSON that is useful > for humans to use. > I’m not saying it is perfect; it is out there and well-implemented, and > any new effort would take a long time to be as useful. It can also do a > lot more than JSON can do, things you don’t have a need for. Right now. > > (I’m not going to spend time on commenting on the article you cite — lots > of valid observations, mixed with a lack of knowledge how to work with > these traits. I wonder what would happen if the authors of these lines > would ever get hold of a JavaScript language spec :-) > > > TOML is what's needed, and it would also avoid a JSON/JSON5 confusion. > > TOML is pretty much the only format in the general vicinity of JSON that > is starting to get as widely used as YAML already has been for a decade or > so. > It plays well with the tastes of people who have been weaned on Windows > .INI files. > It also has some nice ways to flatten out overly complex structure. > It is not a superset of JSON, though, so it is kind of off-topic for the > current conversation. > > (I wouldn’t mind getting native support for both YAML and TOML in a future > JavaScript; everyone to their taste.) > > Grüße, Carsten > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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