• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      The amount of config.jsons I’ve had to mess with…

      Yeah, json is not a good config format. As much as xml is not. Please use something like YAML or TOML.

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        2 months ago

        I never moved away from ini I’ve just been sititng back watching you all re-invent the wheel over and over and over and over and over.

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          2 months ago

          It’s a wheel, it’s supposed to turn over and over and over and infinitum!

          /S (because it’s big sarcasm instead of small.)

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      2 months ago

      Of course you can use XML that way, but it is unnecessarily verbose and complex because you have to make decisions, like, whether to store things as attributes or as nested elements.

      I stand by my statement that if you’re saving things to a file you should probably use XML, if you’re transferring data over a network you should probably use JSON.