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Title: Serialization languages
Post by: grondilu on June 14, 2012, 03:12:29 PM


I recently found out about YAML and I think it's much cooler than JSON.

I'm curious about your opinion about it.


Title: Re: Serialization languages
Post by: ribuck on June 14, 2012, 03:28:59 PM
Whatever my code libraries use is what I use. Nowadays, that seems to be JSON more often than not.

But YAML is great. Even CSV can be made usable.


Title: Re: Serialization languages
Post by: DeepBit on June 14, 2012, 03:36:16 PM
Actually I don't like serialization, but looks like JSON is the most popular and supported.


Title: Re: Serialization languages
Post by: Revalin on June 14, 2012, 10:50:36 PM
JSON is great for simple data, especially just arrays of numbers.

YAML is great for rich complex data, but it requires a smarter parser.  I love the human readability though.

Both are much more fun to use than XML.