Comment on Show me a better text format for serializing
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My problem with yaml is if you truncate it at any random spot, there’s a high likelihood it’s still valid yaml. I don’t like the idea that things can continue without even knowing there’s a problem. The single opening and closing curly braces enclosing a json object is all it takes to at least know you didn’t receive the entire message. Toml has the same issue. I’ll stick with json when it makes sense.
pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 7 months ago
Add a schema to it and you get XML. The ultimate serialization format.
marcos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Quite like YAML, XML has too many stuff in it. While a lot of parsers are not standard compliant and safe, if there’s any chance the stuff you include on your code can evolve into a fully featured parser, including it is something to avoid.
There is this language called KDL that looks interesting.