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minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 days agoThis is why there are none, but I still think it’s dumb. Parsers can’t see comments anyways.
minus-squareNekuSoulAlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-210 days agoThat’s assuming people actually use a parser and don’t build their own “parser” to read values manually. And before anyone asks: Yes, I’ve known people who did exactly that and to this day I’m still traumatized by that discovery. But yes, comments would’ve been nice.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoA tool being flexible enough that a shitty dev can use it to make something shitty isn’t a poor reflection on the tool.
This is why there are none, but I still think it’s dumb. Parsers can’t see comments anyways.
That’s assuming people actually use a parser and don’t build their own “parser” to read values manually.
And before anyone asks: Yes, I’ve known people who did exactly that and to this day I’m still traumatized by that discovery.
But yes, comments would’ve been nice.
A tool being flexible enough that a shitty dev can use it to make something shitty isn’t a poor reflection on the tool.