hjson VS www.yaml.org

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.

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/

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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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...

There’s also json-c and Hjson.

First of all, create a file in the root project directories called compose.yaml. YAML is a text format that uses indentation to specify dependencies between configuration options. Be aware that incorrect indentation will cause problems with executing commands properly.

Most commonly written in YAML, these files are large and complex to read and understand. And being written in YAML comes with its challenges (and quirks) since it is an additional programming language that devs need to learn.

YAML Ain't a Markup Language

Note, that this file is a Markdown and YAML file at the same time, and as such human- and machine-readable, if the fields are filled carefully.

Front matter is a bit of text at the start of a file (YAML to be exact) that is placed between two ---

Meanwhile, formats have been evolving (JSON5, YAML), config entry points are constantly changing. These fluctuations, fortunately, were covered by tools like the cosmiconfig.

Personally, I'd love to see them using a standard file format like TOML or YAML so that they're easy to parse and work with using already-existing tools.