Published on: 2025-08-07 08:18:03
In my day job building software, I have to interact with complex configuration files continually. They are (as of 2025) typically in one of three formats: JSON-with-comments, YAML, or TOML. Although they enjoy widespread usage, each of these formats is painful to use in practice: JSON-with-comments — it’s really hard to comment out a line in a JSON file, because you end up with an extra trailing , on the previous line which breaks the syntax. on the previous line which breaks the syntax. TOML
Keywords: conl json like syntax toml
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