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orf on June 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying nt...

Could be instead YAML or TOML. The point wasn’t specifically and only a JSON dependency, it was a dependency in general to do something useful and standardised

petee on June 28, 2024 [–]

> Would you rather it had a JSON dependency to parse a config file, or yet another poorly thought out, ad-hoc homegrown config file format

Ok, but you didn't write that, and thus they responded as such. Snark was still unnecessary; they made a simple statement in reply.

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