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msgodel on July 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peev...

LMAO that's exactly the kind of pattern I'm ranting about. I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.

dehrmann on July 18, 2025 [–]

I don't mean to a hashmap; I meant to a pojo/dataclass/whatever.

msgodel on July 18, 2025 | [–]

Sure but it's the overly general hashmap based interfaces everywhere which includes these canned serialization formats that's the issue. Someone else in this thread posted noyaml.com which is a great summary of the issue there.

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