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Post #3377996
2026-04-25 21:06 UTC
@cks@mastodon.social
Apologies, I might be asking a question you already answered.
What would be a more user-friendly data format?
What would you recommend?
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@cks@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 21:17
@curious_carrot@mastodon.social YAML is better than JSON but not particularly good. TOML is better than YAML if you have something that it's simple enough for. UCL¹ might work okay for somewhat straightforward configuration files. Otherwise, no, you cannot have a generic configuration file format. You will have to design and parse your own, one that takes into account both general lessons learned and the specific configuration needs of your program. ¹ https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl