Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller

• NovaPrime@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I say this with all due respect, but XML can gargle nuts.

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• snowe@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because no one ever uses those. Literally > and | are the only ones I’ve ever seen in over a decade and you will never need to worry about the differences between the two.

  XML as a configuration language is terrible. Yaml gets the point across in an easily readable way, which is exactly the point. Same for JSON except JSON you can’t even use comments (you need json5 or one of the numerous other alternatives to get those).

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really unfortunate the devops world chose such a hot mess of a format. JSONC would be a dumb choice and still do a better job for most config files.

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