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by dustismo 2252 days ago
I chose json mostly for convenience, but also to give me some easy future possibilities.

Making thinking was something like:

pros:

1. json has lots of tooling and is generally easy to work with 2. if I put up a ui/webapp around hfd, then json will work well for that. 3. if I want a custom DSL, I can always have the grammar convert to json as the underlying representation.

CONS: 1. the json ends up being deeply nested and hard to work with 2. lack of multiline strings and comments (I went ahead added comment support though :))