Discussion on: YAML (and JSONC) failed as a data transfer format with comments

View post

Replies for: I generally prefer YAML (or TOML is also ok) for human readable/writable config files and JSON for data. You're on your own with XML ;P

But for YAML, machines cannot preserve comments?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. YAML is not good as a serialization format. It is for configuration only. The comments are only for humans.

I do wish JSON allowed comments, however. This is the main reason why I prefer YAML over JSON for configuration files that are intended to be edited by humans.

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Oct 7 '20

yaml.dump(yaml.load($string)), and comments are lost.

Steve Pryde • Oct 7 '20

Ah ok. Yes I can see why this would be annoying.

I believe there are yaml parsers that do preserve comments but probably not for every language.