Programmer Humor

JSON is like the carcinization of programming

orange = {
    you = "glad",
    I = {
        didn\'t = {
            say = "banana"
        }
    }
}

Time to read this if you haven't already

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

If yaml didn’t have anchors and 8 different white space formats, it’d be a great replacement for this kind of thing.

But yaml is a mess, and you’d think you could parse it easily, but you can’t.

As someone who likes lua, I don't see the problem.

I like this. I also like yaml, I've had very few issues with it and it's nicer to work with than json.

Json's lack of support for trailing commas and comments makes it very annoying for everyday use.

I love NixOS

TOML v1.1 just looks like HCL.

Just use HCL at that point.

I will die on the hill that XML is a superior config format and people are just afraid of it cause they see the advanced features (that you don't need to use) and think it's too complicated.

TOML's design is based on the idea that INI was a good format. This was always going to cause problems, as INI was never good, and never a format. In reality, it was hundreds of different formats people decided to use the same file extension for, all with their own incompatible quirks and rarely any ability to identify which variant you were using and therefore which quirks would need to be worked around.

The changes in the third panel were inevitable, as people have data with nested structure that they're going to want to represent, and without significant whitespace, TOML was always going to need some kind of character to delimit nesting.

Nix is the next step in that evolution. It's basically just JSON that can generate itself !

If this is where the toml train ends I will be happy with it. If they do a yaml, I will be very upset.