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What is the best file format for configuration file? (programming.dev)
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.yaml, .toml, etc?

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[โ€“] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 3 points 1 year 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.