使用 Homebrew, Nix, scoop 安装 hjson

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库

命令和别名

• hjson

项目历史

The Hjson site presents the format as a user interface for JSON rather than a replacement for JSON. The stated goal is to make data easier for humans to read and edit before converting it back to ordinary JSON for machines.

The Hjson Internet-Draft dated May 23, 2016 formalized the format as Human JSON, a configuration file format based on JSON whose design goals were readability, editability, backward compatibility with JSON, and suitability for human-viewed configuration, resource files, and debug data dumps.

The Homebrew package points at hjson-go, the Go implementation. Its README says the Go implementation is based on hjson-js, documents both library and hjson-cli use, and positions the CLI as a converter between JSON and Hjson.

采用历史

Hjson adoption has been implementation-led rather than standards-body-led. The official developer page lists implementations for JavaScript, C#, C++, Go, Java, Lua, PHP, Python, Rust, Ruby, and other partial ports, plus tools with native support.

The input package facts show the Go CLI packaged by Homebrew, Nix, and Scoop. That is a modest but useful packaging footprint for developers who want a command-line converter without adopting a language-specific library.

使用方式

The hjson-go CLI reads JSON or Hjson from a file or stdin and emits JSON, formatted JSON, or Hjson. Typical package use is converting existing JSON into a friendlier editable form, validating Hjson, or embedding Hjson parsing into Go programs.

The format is intentionally scoped. The Internet-Draft recommends it for data primarily viewed or edited by humans and advises against protocol use.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Hjson sits in the long-running package-nerd debate over configuration formats: strict JSON is universal but hostile to comments and hand editing; YAML is powerful but complex; Hjson offers a smaller relaxed-JSON compromise.

The Go CLI matters because it turns the format into a portable command-line filter, making Hjson useful in shell scripts, editors, config migrations, and package-manager installs without committing to a JavaScript runtime.

时间线

• 2014: The hjson/hjson repository was created for the format project.
• 2016-05-23: The Hjson Internet-Draft was dated May 23, 2016.
• 2016-08-05: The hjson-go repository was created.
• 2016-08-08: hjson-go v0.1.0 was published on GitHub releases.

Related projects

• hjson-js: the JavaScript implementation that hjson-go names as its base.
• JSON: the strict data format that Hjson extends for human-editable configuration.
• YAML, TOML, JSON5: adjacent human-editable configuration formats often considered for similar use cases.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/hjson/hjson
• https://api.github.com/repos/hjson/hjson-go
• https://hjson.github.io/
• https://hjson.github.io/download.html
• https://hjson.github.io/rfc.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hjson/hjson-go/master/README.md
• input: source_facts.package-manager