The problem with JSON and XML based file formats is the tendency to require further parsing to decode values from strings. A universal interchange file format would have the ability to express all common data types through the composition of atomic values and containers.
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Finally, real data contains some equivalent of pointers or references, often with cycles. A universal interchange format must be able to express a snapshot of this data at a point in time, including references to external data that may be found elsewhere.
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It’s the lack of this notion of local and remote references in data that leaves Java and C# requiring ad hoc database glue layers in languages that were otherwise sufficiently high-level that they could have solved the problem in a wonderfully general way.
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(Whisper: “comma first”... ;-)
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Solution space for single-line diffability: - prefix separators (like bullet points) - postfix terminators (semicolons) - newline terminators (whose interpretation isn’t affected by an otherwise valid expression on the following line, BRENDAN!
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i got a custom json like format that just gets rid of all the unnecessary commas and stuffhttps://github.com/TylerGlaiel/GON
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Modern editors make line counts a non complaint, lines are syntactic sugar to make programming easier for the fleshy things with brains
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This is making me think of bitwise structs in c
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For this reason I’ve been using YAML over json sometimes. It’s much more robust in diffs and merges.
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