JSON is a good format. It's a shame it doesn't support comments or dates (without hacks), it could have been a great format.
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I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.
One nice feature of cargo that I wasn't previously aware of: you don't need to do anything after updating your Cargo.toml.
In npm, you need to remember to `npm i` after changing package.json. It's not declarative and the state can get out of sync.
I love how the CommonMark Spec has a test suite that's just a JSON array. It's really easy to test a library for compliance, and I've seen developers nerd-sniped into full compliance.
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/spec.json