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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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TOML instead of YAML or JSON for configuration.
YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.
JSON works, but the block quoting and indenting is a lot of noise for a simple category key value format.
People bitch about YAML but for me it's still the preferred one just because the others suck more.
TOML like said is fine for simple things but as soon as you get a bit more complex it's messy and unwieldy. And JSON is fine to operate on but for a config? It's a mess. It's harder to type and read for something like a config file.
Heck, I'm not even sold on the S-expressions compared to yaml yet. But then, I deal with so much with all of these formats that I simply still prefer YAML for readability and ease of use (compared to the others.)