A new better alternative definition of Terse:
The act of proclaiming a “new standard” without any user community to speak of.
The act of proclaiming a “new standard” without any user community to speak of.
One thing that is also really important is the ability to define a schema and be able to validate. See XML Schema, JSON Schema. This is a really tricky problem to get right. Especially if you try to do both with the same model (describing your data model and describing how its validated) at the same time.
Once you have the schema, IDEs like VSCode offer code-intelligence and real-time validation, which is very nice.