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On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:20:01 -0700 |
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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > As for JSON/YAML, ... eh... that may be the case for like, 4 line files. |
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> > But once you have hundreds of entries, that becomes less true. |
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> What becomes less true? |
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In that it ceases to be a human-editable format. |
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Its editable in the sense of "a text editor can edit it", but that's |
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like calling XML human-editable. |
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At scale, large JSON files can become something one cannot safely edit |
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without risking breaking the format. |
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( The JSON syntax rules imply a document-global parse completes, as |
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opposed to a line-based system that invalidity of an entry only affects |
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that record ) |
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