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What is the best file format for configuration file? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/experienced_devs@programming.dev
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.yaml, .toml, etc?

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Yaml for me, I really like it. And the fact that every valid JSON is also a valid YAML is nice.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    YAML here as well.

    Configuration many levels deep gets so much harder for me to read and write in JSON with all [], {} and ""

    Also the lack of comments... And YAML still is more used in software I'm using than JSON5, so I'd rather skip yet another format/library to keep track of.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Please do not use YAML. It's a syntactic minefield. It also doesn't allow tab indentation, which is supremely irritating.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    As I said, I like it the most, so I will use it. I like its syntax (except for yes and no for booleans, but nothing's perfect). I don't care much for tabs vs spaces, I use tab in my IDE and whatever it does, it does.

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