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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

If there are no humans in the loop, sure, like for data transfer. But for, e.g., configuration files, i'd prefer a text-based solution instead of a binary one, JSON is a nice fit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yaml is more human readable/editable, and it's a superset of json!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yaml is just arcane bullshit to actually write as a human. Nor is it intuitively clear how yaml serializes.

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