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twic on Jan 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.par...

The JSON specification [1] states:

> An implementation may set limits on the length and character contents of strings.

So this length limit is not a source of incompatibility with JSON.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7159#section-9

eatonphil on Jan 24, 2022 [–]

Wow! That makes it pretty hard to know you've generated useful JSON especially if your goal is to for cross-ecosystem communication.

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