Jsonnet

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Jsonnet is a data notation created in 2014 by Dave Cunningham.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/google/jsonnet

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Jsonnet website
Jsonnet is developed on GitHub
There are at least 1,430 Jsonnet repos on GitHub
Jsonnet is a superset of JSON
Jsonnet first developed in Google
file extensions for Jsonnet include jsonnet and libsonnet
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 104 users using Jsonnet in 190 repos on GitHub
jsonnet.org was registered in 2015

Example from the web:

// A function that returns an object.
local Person(name='Alice') = {
  name: name,
  welcome: 'Hello ' + name + '!',
};
{
  person1: Person(),
  person2: Person('Bob'),
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Lists	✓		[1, 2, 3]
Maps	✓		{"name": "Mary"}
Strings	✓		"hello world"
Integers	✓		80766866
Floats	✓		2.3
Booleans	✓		false
Semantic Indentation	X
Case Insensitive Identifiers	X
Multiline Strings	X
File Imports	X
Ternary operators	X
Conditionals	X
Macros	X
Disk Output	X

Feature

Supported

Token

Example

Comments

✓