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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	lars.schneider@autodesk.com,
	Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] routines to generate JSON data
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:38:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpGWZaFMWhN72beUVaV_HuECAAEYhf+UT-CPZUV+Gew4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180316211837.GB12333@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>   3. Some other similar format. YAML comes to mind. Last time I looked
>      (quite a while ago), it seemed insanely complex, but I think you
>      could implement only a reasonable subset. OTOH, I think the tools
>      ecosystem for parsing JSON (e.g., jq) is much better.
>

I would personally avoid YAML. It's "easier" for humans to read/parse,
but honestly JSON is already simple enough and anyone who writes C or
javascript can likely parse and hand-write JSON anyways. YAML lacks
built-in parsers for most languages, where as many scripting languages
already have JSON parsing built in, or have more easily attainable
libraries available. In contrast, the YAML libraries are much more
complex and less likely to be available.

That's just my own experience at $dayjob though.

Thanks,
Jake

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-17  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-16 19:40 [PATCH 0/2] routines to generate JSON data git
2018-03-16 19:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] json_writer: new routines to create data in JSON format git
2018-03-16 19:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] json-writer: unit test git
2018-03-16 21:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] routines to generate JSON data Jeff King
2018-03-16 23:00   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-20  5:52     ` Jeff King
2018-03-17  7:38   ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2018-03-19 17:31     ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-03-19 10:19   ` Jeff Hostetler
2018-03-20  5:42     ` Jeff King
2018-03-20 16:44       ` Jeff Hostetler

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