alt Hacker News> format (string – recommended): > > This would indicate the metadata format. Currently, only json is officially supported, and is the default if not provided.
JSON doesn't seem a good choice for representing metadata in a format that aims to be universal. It is unnecessarily complicated for this purpose IMO
> JSON doesn't seem a good choice for representing metadata in a format that aims to be universal. It is unnecessarily complicated for this purpose IMO
That's an odd statement. Can you please explain why you believe that JSON is "unnecessarily complicated" to represent metadata.