SE Radio 570: Stanisław Barzowski on the jsonnet Language
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The Pros and Cons of JSON for Programming
If your language is something like C++ then there is a lot of boilerplate just like managing this extra files things like the way you express JSON is just not very ergonomic so it's much easier to use. The second thing is permitticity and this is sort of a funny feature because this is about what we don't do rather than what we do do. It is a guarantee thatJSON it won't randomly read some files or have any additional side effects.
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