• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    19 days ago

    Json is a garbage format for anything that’s meant to ever be touched by a human. At least use yaml or json5.

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      19 days ago

      In the first paragraph of JSON5’s site:

      It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication.

      YAML is not supported by a lot of enterprise software (example: Azure pipelines supports it but Power Automate does not). JSON, XML, CSV, or failing that Text are the safe bets. We use a few options for reading or building presentation layers quickly. Ultimately the idea is to move data around in a way that is friendly to our current and future applications.