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> In conclusion, JSON is not a data format you can rely on blindly.

What does HN suggest for configuration files (to be written by a human essentially)?

I am looking at YAML and TOML. My experience with JSON based config files was horrible.

lucb1e

> What does HN suggest for configuration files (to be written by a human essentially)?

JSON.

YAML confuses many people by being whitespace-sensitive; ini files I find too limited.

sankyo
in Clojure we use EDN (Extensible Data Notation) for config files and a data transfer format. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

It is really a pleasure to use compared to JSON and XML. While it may not be as compact as ProtoBuffers, Thrift, or Avro, it is human readable and also valid Clojure code. Libraries are ready available to convert it to JSON.