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nonbirithm on June 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

For config formats I'm finding HCL[1] to be nice for my use cases. It has comments, no requirement for double quoted identifiers, and is actually simple. The main issue was the only implementation is in Go, so I had to write a port to C++.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl

LukeB42 on June 21, 2018 | [–]

Super happy with HCL for over a year in production now.

I've only got one FOSS project using HCL but I think of its' bundled HCL config file is an attractive part of its UX: https://github.com/LukeB42/psyrcd

ryanisnan on June 20, 2018 | [–]

I'm surprised that nobody else has brought this up....

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