• riccardo
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      43 years ago

      I use toml as much as I can for configs. It looks really readable to me, but I can understand how some people find it not really immediate, especially when reading arrays of tables

      • Ephera
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        23 years ago

        Yeah, I feel like it’s not perfect, but I haven’t yet figured out, how I would do it better.

        And I definitely feel like it’s more adequate than INI, XML, JSON and YAML.

      • Ephera
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        33 years ago
          # hash style comments
          # (because it's just one character)
        

        I always found that argumentation silly, because personally I find the “#” so visually cluttering that I want a space after it, which I don’t care to have with “//”-comments.
        The Python styleguide even recommends putting two spaces ahead of the “#” as well, which makes it four characters to start a comment.

  • @fishinthecalculator
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    23 years ago

    After the parentheses revolution we’ll use S-exps all the way down! :D

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      23 years ago

      Been working with Clojure for the past decade, and I would loathe to use any language without s-exps at this point. :)

      • @fishinthecalculator
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        23 years ago

        +1, for me it was Guile Scheme. I think that S-exp are actually unbeatable for their combo of simplicity, expressive power and strong specification (and they are like ~60 years old). No one of the above mentioned formats has all of these features.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          33 years ago

          Yeah, I’m equal parts amused and depressed that CL and Scheme are much better languages that most of what’s come out since.