- cross-posted to:
- lobsters
- cross-posted to:
- lobsters
There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. “Oh, XML,” they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. “We use JSON now. Much cleaner.”
Not on the human parser side.
And no comments, unless you use a non-standard parser. But then you might as well use anorher format.
Now do a second comment.
Lol. That works, but its hacky.
The meaning of a “comment” is an integrated language feauture to write something that is not parsed by that language. This is just regular JSON.
This only works if the software that consumes the JSON doesn’t validate it or ignores keys it doesn’t recognize (which is bad, IMHO).
JSON is super easy to read and write though. Just needs a parser that allows comments…
That’s JSON5 or JSONC
Yes, which needs to be supported by your parser.