Hacker News with Generative AI: Configuration Files

CONL: "Markdown" for your config files (cirw.in)
In my day job building software, I have to interact with complex configuration files continually.

Configuration Files, Software, Tools

70 points by kretaceous 62 days ago | 51 comments

CONL: "Markdown" for your config files (cirw.in)
In my day job building software, I have to interact with complex configuration files continually. They are (as of 2025) typically in one of three formats: JSON-with-comments, YAML, or TOML.

Configuration Files, Software Development, Tools

25 points by Timothee 62 days ago | 10 comments

Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library (github.com/lsferreira42)
A robust shell script library for parsing and manipulating INI configuration files in Bash.

Bash, Shell Scripting, Configuration Files, Libraries

35 points by lsferreira42 88 days ago | 32 comments

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 129 days ago | 12 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 201 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 246 days ago | 16 comments

Ziggy: Data serialization language for expressing API messages, config files (ziggy-lang.io)