yaml-rust VS hjson-js

Either https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust or https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml for parsing the YAML config file that markdownlint uses

Here's the Rust code so far -- the commented portions are my intent via pseudocode. This is part of an implementation where there's a _yaml_hash member that points to yaml_rust's underlying LinkedHashMap. (Also using anyhow's bail! and Result.)

The first thing I did was to find the crate yaml-rust and it seems it isn't really maintained anymore. It has not been updated in a year and there's a lot of PR's and unresolved issues, the CI is broken... So here is my open ended question.

Currently, my main concern with YAML is that, by the spec, comments are not attached to a particular node (see https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2767100). As a result, a lot of YAML parsers (like https://github.com/yaml/libyaml and https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust) only filter out the comments during the parsing phase. This makes it less than ideal for a use-case where the configuration file is expected to be modified by both programs and humans.

TOML makes it more trivial to associate comments with a node. This is mainly because the language is simpler though, as the spec is not explicit about that (https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust).

By the way.. if you use the hjson parser you can add comments to json files :) https://hjson.github.io/

I wish this took off https://hjson.github.io. I like it much more than yaml.

I don't know anything about VueJS either but HJSON is pretty cool in that regard https://hjson.github.io/

> Another difficult problem was checking for correct indentation visually (because the configuration is YAML-based and indentation matters).

why yaml? I hate it so much! my eyes hurt looking at it?

why not using https://hjson.github.io/ ?

HJSON [0] is also another format that tries to make it easier for humans to read / write json.

[0] https://hjson.github.io/

well there are json alternatives which fit this bill, such as HJSON.

https://hjson.github.io/

might not be as "common" but it has good implementations for many languages.

zdpack also pre-processes datapacks, allowing json files to be written in hjson or yaml, in addition to allowing a special extensible super-set of MCFunction I call CommandScript. You can check the github page for a quick overview of CommandScript.