[ale] Ubuntu 18.04 release notes

[Kyle Brieden]

It's almost as if different standards, designed by humans, are fallible 
in their own ways and aren't perfect for every given situation. :P

I do prefer JSON to YAML for reasons stated earlier in this chain.  I 
feel like JSON is a really good balance between human and machine 
parsable, but with the frankly absurd multitude of tools at our disposal 
these days, unless you're writing basically everything in 
TextEdit/Notepad/Nano (and even nano may have plugins, but I can't speak 
to that), there's no reason to take 60 seconds and install a plugin that 
lints/parses YAML/JSON for you as you type.

I also disagree with the implication that you can't run YAML through a 
linter.  It is designed to be a machine-parsable format, therefore it 
must be structured, and if it is well structured, programmatic linting 
is possible.  It's a markup language, not english :P

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 27-04-2018 13:41, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> On 2018-04-27 10:06, leam hall via Ale wrote:
>> YAML spacing drives my nuts on a frequent basis since I use Ansible.
>> However, JSON dies if you miss a comma.
> 
> True, but at least that's parsable.  You can run a JSON through a 
> linter
>  or break it up into lines like my original example and the missing
> comma will be more visible.  I've run into that before writing for
> embedded devices where I was returning JSON formatted data (for ease of
> parsing on the other end) and forgot the comma (easy to do when the 
> JSON
> is hand typed into the code as the formatting string for snprintf().
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