On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:20:01 -0700 Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > As for JSON/YAML, ... eh... that may be the case for like, 4 line files. > > > > But once you have hundreds of entries, that becomes less true. > > > > What becomes less true? In that it ceases to be a human-editable format. Its editable in the sense of "a text editor can edit it", but that's like calling XML human-editable. At scale, large JSON files can become something one cannot safely edit without risking breaking the format. ( The JSON syntax rules imply a document-global parse completes, as opposed to a line-based system that invalidity of an entry only affects that record )
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