webbureaucrat comments on What are you working on this week? (Sep. 29, 2024)

submitted 2 years ago by secana@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

[–] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm working on a fault-tolerant JSON5 parsing library in the service of a JSON5-to-JSON and JSON5-to-YAML transpiler.

My goal is to never write any more YAML ever again.

[–] secana@programming.dev [S] 6 points 2 years ago

An honorable goal 😀

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[–] 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

What did YAML ever do to you?

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[–] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

I am a YAML hater. The biggest thing about YAML that keeps biting me recently is this:

script:
    - echo "a key: a value"

throws parse errors because of the colon, even though it is inside a quoted string.

Honestly, an underrated one to me is I just hate significant whitespace. I don't want to use any language that supports it.

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