| hjson | json5 | |
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| 5 | 94 | |
| 2,629 | 6,308 | |
| 0.5% | 0.9% | |
| 4.8 | 0.0 | |
| 23 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| HTML | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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hjson
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
HJson https://hjson.github.io seems a nice 'in-between' between YAML and JSON without the indentation-based syntax, so closer to the JSON side but with comments and less quotes.
What I don't really get is why the cloud providers / tooling implementors have never drafted up a "YAML-light" that just throws out the rarely-used headache-inducing syntax elements.
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That's a Lot of YAML
Hjson is very similar to JSON5 but allows quotes to be dropped and can use newlines instead of commas. There are implementations for a lot of different languages, I myself contributed the C++ implementation. I wanted something smaller than Yaml but more lax than JSON, found Hjson to suit my needs perfectly.
https://hjson.github.io/
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The real reason JSON has no comments
JSONs make terrible config files. If you want to use json-like syntax for config, use hjson instead. It's basically json, but changes it slightly so it better matches human expectations.
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The YAML Document from Hell
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YAML and JSON succeeded because they had a clean and predictable, no-nonsense mapping between encoding and object-model after decoding. Probably we should all switch to an almost-yaml format that does away with the peculiarities, and the FANG companies would have the momentum to make that happen.
I personally would like for HJSON (https://hjson.github.io) to see more adoption, but that train has passed...
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Why?
There’s also json-c and Hjson.
json5
- JSON5 – JSON for Humans
- Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
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I pre-released my project "json-responder" written in Rust
JSON5 support
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topoconfig: enhancing config declarations with graphs
Meanwhile, formats have been evolving (JSON5, YAML), config entry points are constantly changing. These fluctuations, fortunately, were covered by tools like the cosmiconfig.
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That's a Lot of YAML
I think JSON5 is fairly close to this: https://json5.org
I reckon the only thing it's missing to be truly accessible to non-techies is that string values still need to be quoted, i.e. you can't have:
key: this is my value
(I'm definitely not saying it would be a good idea to allow quotes to be dropped, just that that's the only potential stumbling block I see for non-techies.)
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XML is better than YAML
I believe that's JSON5.
https://github.com/json5/json5
It's my preferred configuration file format, it fixes all the problems I have with JSON (trailing commas, comments) without turning it into a mess full of gotchas like YAML.
- Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
- What Is Wrong with TOML?
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🚀 'GET' API in API Maker
JSON 5 support
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TySON: a native go library that lets you use TypeScript as an embedded configuration language without depending on Node or V8
I would like to see mention of JSON5 which is 11 years its elder. For comments in JSON, JSON5 is a good starting point.
What are some alternatives?
noyaml - A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com
Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
yj - CLI - Convert between YAML, TOML, JSON, and HCL. Preserves map order.
hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript
LIBUCL - Universal configuration library parser
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
www.yaml.org - The yaml.org website
toml - Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
cuetorials.com - Learn you some CUE for a great good!
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
json2jsii - Generates jsii-compatible structs from JSON schemas
sublime-hjson - Hjson support for Sublime Text