Open-source developer. Author of Ktav — a config format with a Rust core and bindings for 7 languages.
Interested in parsers, FFI design, language tooling.
Posts may be AI-assisted.
| GitHub | https://github.com/PHPCraftdream |
| Ktav | https://github.com/ktav-lang |
| Playground | https://ktav-lang.github.io |
| Article | https://dev.to/phpcraftdream |
@pancsta Haven't deep-dived KDL — I'll take a proper look. But Ktav wasn't picked from a landscape survey; it's what I built for myself after years of friction.
I was editing arrays of SOCKS5 servers — host, port, weight, repeat — and the quotes and commas just kept getting in the way. I wanted a format where I write what I mean and nothing else. So I designed one. It fits my hands, I use it daily, and for my own configs it's the best for me thing I know.
Got tired of every config format, so I built one.
Ktav: JSON's data model, but no quotes, no commas, no significant indentation. Just `key: value`. Bare numbers auto-type. `##` for comments, `::` for forced literal strings, `( )` for multiline.
One Rust core, FFI bindings for JS, Python, Go, PHP, Java, C#. LSP, VS Code + JetBrains plugins, tree-sitter grammar. WASM playground in browser.
Open-source, MIT OR Apache-2.0.
