Hacker News with Generative AI: Configuration Files

TOML [Tom's Obvious Minimal Language] (toml.io)
TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages.
Configuration Files, Programming Languages, Data Structures
10 points by wanderer2323 3 days ago | 11 comments
JSON5 – JSON for Humans (json5.org)
JSON5 is an extension to the popular JSON file format that aims to be easier to write and maintain by hand (e.g. for config files). It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication. (Keep using JSON or other file formats for that. 🙂)
JSON, Configuration Files, Programming, Software, File Formats
364 points by rickcarlino 75 days ago | 344 comments
Comparison of configuration file languages (2016) (github.com)
We need to PEPify a static format for writing down bootstrap information in Python source trees.
Configuration Files, Python, Programming Languages
21 points by aleyan 120 days ago | 16 comments
Ziggy: Data serialization language for expressing API messages, config files (ziggy-lang.io)
Data Serialization, Programming Languages, API Design, Configuration Files
104 points by thunderbong 138 days ago | 16 comments
How to parse config files with Bash (opensource.com)
Bash, Configuration Files, Linux, Programming, Command Line
20 points by devonnull 267 days ago | 14 comments