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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Json is a garbage format for anything that's meant to ever be touched by a human. At least use yaml or json5.

    [–] CancerMancer 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    In the first paragraph of JSON5's site:

    It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication.

    YAML is not supported by a lot of enterprise software (example: Azure pipelines supports it but Power Automate does not). JSON, XML, CSV, or failing that Text are the safe bets. We use a few options for reading or building presentation layers quickly. Ultimately the idea is to move data around in a way that is friendly to our current and future applications.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

    It's absolutely trivial to convert either format to json if necessary. The real killer for me with json is the lack of comments. Human-maintained files absolutely need comments.