Duper: A Human-Friendly JSON Extension with Enhanced Features
By
epiceric
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
Duper is a human-friendly extension of JSON that adds quality-of-life improvements, extra data types, and semantic identifiers while maintaining full JSON compatibility. It features ergonomic improvements like trailing commas and comments, rich types including tuples and bytes, self-documenting identifiers for readability, and works for configuration files and other use cases where JSON is commonly used.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledDuper excels in a variety of use cases: Configuration files: Duper's explicit types and comments serve as helpful guide
A human-friendly extension of JSON with quality-of-life improvements, extra types, and semantic identifiers
Hand-writing ergonomics: Trailing commas, comments, and optional quotes for keys
JSON-compatible: Every valid JSON file is automatically valid Duper
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