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| json5 | kdl | |
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| 94 | 14 | |
| 6,291 | 1,035 | |
| 1.3% | 4.1% | |
| 0.0 | 5.6 | |
| 5 months ago | 11 days ago | |
| JavaScript | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
kdl
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XL: An Extensible Programming Language
IMO, there’s a wide unexplored design space between the minimalism of Lisp and richness of other languages. A programming language inspired by something like KDL (https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl) has the potential to be in a very sweet spot between the two. "Everything is a node" instead of "everything is a list" is only slightly more complicated, but also vastly more readable that a soup of parenthesis.
- Things you didn't know you could fuzz - FuzzingWeekly CW17
- Things you didn’t know you could fuzz: - FuzzingWeekly CW17
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SDLang – Simple Declarative Language
KDL is a variant of SDLang that’s worth checking out.
https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl
- KDL
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Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣 (2018)
Either way I've got high hopes for KDL becoming the new gold standard for clean, flexible data formats that are editable by hand.
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The KDL Document Language
I'd love to understand why all the advertised implementations have permissive licenses except for the Rust implementation, which is released under the Parity Public License 7.0.0 [1]? This seems to be as restrictive as the GPL, no?
In my mind, copyleft licenses applied to infrastructural projects like kdl-rs prematurely limits their adoption and promotes the development of alternatives with more permissive licensing, since the spec is released under a Creative Commons license [2].
[1]: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl-rs/blob/87f836134c1d901ff5ce6...
[2]: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl/blob/785abebfc507ff6b7bdeac07...
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The KDL Document Language, an alternative to YAML/JSON/XML
p.s. if anyone is interested in helping or just wants the info, this is the tracking issue for implementations supporting 1.0 (the actual thing that just got released): https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl/issues/144
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ParserObjects Parser Combinator Library for .NET
Oh nice. It will be a nice library to use to parse KDL (https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl)
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The YAML file of Prometheus Operator has over 13k lines, one of the longest YAML files on GitHub ever
It's still in its infancy but I'm keeping an eye on kdl
What are some alternatives?
Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
ron - Rusty Object Notation
hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript
prometheus-operator - Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
config - configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON files
toml - Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
jsonjsc - A Python JSONDecoder library for parsing out Javascript comments in JSON files.
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
sublime-hjson - Hjson support for Sublime Text
Slim - Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.