> There seems to be a pervasive undercurrent that if it looks website-ish, it's got to be good.
I don't get that from the article. There's a stated reason, that it's a stricter format with much less risk of type confusion, which sounds plausible enough to me. There's also the benefit that tool support is good. Why does the web need to be relevant at all?
Doesn't YAML fill the same slot, allow comments, and allow much saner human interaction? And as a bonus it's 100% (?) convertible to JSON (minus comments of course)
You'd have to add a validator to disallow some of the weirder YAML syntaxes. And once you have such a validator, you have neither JSON (it won't parse) nor YAML (it's dangerous to parse the file as YAML without running it through the validator first).
I don't get that from the article. There's a stated reason, that it's a stricter format with much less risk of type confusion, which sounds plausible enough to me. There's also the benefit that tool support is good. Why does the web need to be relevant at all?