On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The problem with YAML is it's a horrendously bloated spec, making it
> super
> > complex to write a correct parser (unless you shim a C library). It
> started
> > off as a really simple idea but then Ingy went a bit off the rails with
> > things it could do, and the spec ended up about 10 times longer than the
> XML
> > spec. Personally I don't like complex formats.
>
> Doesn't it sound familiar? (JavaScript ;-)
>

Not even slightly.

I've programmed in a lot of languages, and JS is definitely one of the
least bloated I've ever used.

But anyway this is drifting off topic - JSON5 does indeed look useful.

Matt.

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