In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Microsoft Windows .ini file format, but with support for a broader range of data types. Here’s an example ... lines if needed. In Python, arrays map ...

Although YML is sometimes used as a data exchange format, its biggest use case is in configuration files. So far, you’ve only seen examples of JSON used with shallow (or simple) objects.

For example ... can be combined with C++, Java, Python and other languages. Unlike XML, JSON is simply a way to represent data structures, as opposed to a full markup language. XML is more difficult ...