Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 17/18] validator.py script

From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Amador Pahim" <apahim@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 17/18] validator.py script
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:53:20 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180417155320.GX29865@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0be4a17b-33ba-cd51-1352-0592ca14cafd@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 05:17:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/04/2018 16:42, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> Should we introduce yet another markup language into QEMU?  (pardon the
> >> pun).
> > Fair question.  What are the existing markup languages in QEMU we
> > could use?
> > 
> > JSON is an option, but I believe YAML is more readable.
> 
> Isn't YAML actually a superset of JSON that adds "magic indent", bullet
> lists and a bunch of other stuff that you're not using?  You can still
> use JSON to express a complicated dictionary for example.

Things I like about YAML in comparison to JSON:
- Comments
- No need to count number of closing brackets or worry about
  trailing commas
- Convenient ways to write long strings without
  "\\"another layer of escaping syntax\\""

JSON is not a language for humans, YAML is.

-- 
Eduardo