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I don't like any machine readable format that doesn't have some indicator that it is a complete document (like JSON or XML does). I've had a production issue where a format like this one was used where the file was read before it was finished writing it and ended up with a corrupt configuration as half of it was elided without any way to know.


This is the best criticism of this entire thread.

It'd be easy to employ ... as a document separator / end indicator that could be checked for.


You could add that yourself - so an application specific marker, using this format.




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