Jan RychterIf you ever have to make a choice on your configuration file format, please do not ever under any circumstances choose YAML. Thank you.
Chris Wilson@jrychter ok, I'll bite 😉 what's your favorite config file format and why?
@cdwilson EDN (https://github.com/edn-format/edn), as it supports all the data types I need. And has comments, as opposed to JSON. This is what I use for anything I write.
For the muggles, I'd suggest JSON, even thought it doesn't support comments, and getting the commas just right is finicky. Just stick the comments into extra strings.
@jrychter I've never heard of EDN, thx for the pointer!
@cdwilson Well, in all fairness, I cheated a little: EDN is natural and easy for #Clojure programmers, because it pretty much *is* the Clojure syntax. One could say I write all my code in EDN.
But, it is useful even if you do not use Clojure, and can at least serve as a reference point for what a configuration format should be.
Felix 🇺🇦🚴♂️🇪🇺@jrychter @cdwilson else I‘d like TOML
#dhall looks interesting too, but I'm not sure if it's still active. Spago, the #purescript build system, used it, but I think they changed to YAML.