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0 pointsnsonha2y ago0 comments

So is JSON, and all mainstream config formats actually. However, that stopped being a problem with JSON schema, which, despite the name, works on yaml too.

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kubanczyk2y ago

>> It's not type safe.

> So is JSON

Blink. I beg your pardon, JSON is strongly typed per RFC 8259 standard:

> JSON can represent four primitive types (strings, numbers, booleans, and null) and two structured types (objects and arrays).

The type system does not align well with any other type system out there (float/int ambiguity, no timestamps, etc.) but it's still better than any coercion.

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