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by apk-d 2284 days ago
I personally find the JSON configuration paradigm to be immensely usable, at least when it's done in a schema/UI-assisted way (which is how vscode did it). I'm glad Microsoft is picking it up in their other software and I wish more software did it.
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Yeah, much better than a sea of textboxes/comboboxes with no way to search.
> with no way to search.

That’s the main problem, not boxes.

Also, for text box configs there’s usually a XML/JSON behind the scene anyway. It’s not like I can’t grep my iTerm config even though I configure it from the GUI.

Agreed, I actually see plenty of settings dialogs in complex products with a search function nowadays (cmder, Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider etc).
also its cool that you can copy your settings and move them to another machine just by copying one file.
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