CSON vs YAML or why CSON ?

[1000i100]

json is full of ,{}[]"" that bother me and probably you. yaml is more human readable cson look to reach the same goal than yaml.

So, what are the différences ?

• yaml references system &anchor content *anchor #as reference
• space and - are allowed in key without bracket in yaml
• the array/map syntaxe differenciation is not the same in yaml and cson

What cson have that yaml don't have ?

• simplicity (less advensed feature you don't want to learn and implement in your parser) ?
• efficiency (faster to parse)

Anything else ?

[RobLoach]

If you read YAML's relation to JSON, you'll likely find your answer. The difference is that CSON is simply CoffeeScript Objects/Arrays.

Use YAML if you find that more usable than CSON. Completely up to you.