yaml-rust VS json5

Compare yaml-rust vs json5 and see what are their differences.

yaml-rust

A pure rust YAML implementation. (by chyh1990)

json5

JSON5 — JSON for Humans (by json5)
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yaml-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of yaml-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
  • Project idea: port markdownlint to Rust
    9 projects | /r/rust | 21 Apr 2023
    Either https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust or https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml for parsing the YAML config file that markdownlint uses
  • Borrow checker not liking recursive walk through a HashMap
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Jan 2023
    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.)
  • How to deal with unmaintained crates? (eg. yaml-rust)
    6 projects | /r/rust | 9 Jan 2022
    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.
  • YAML and Configuration Files
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2021
    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).

json5

Posts with mentions or reviews of json5. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yaml-rust and json5 you can also consider the following projects:

serde-yaml - Strongly typed YAML library for Rust

Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

serde - Serialization framework for Rust

hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript

strictyaml - Type-safe YAML parser and validator.

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]

cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue

toml - Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

libyaml-rust - LibYAML bindings for Rust

jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language

ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text

sublime-hjson - Hjson support for Sublime Text