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Written by federico :debian: on 2025-01-30 at 09:36

Don't use YAML for configuration files. A single incorrect whitespace is enough to break indentation making subtle configuration changes that are easy to miss.

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Written by :So_happy_smiling_cat: kittyfailure on 2025-01-30 at 09:38

@federico3

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Written by sumanthvepa on 2025-01-30 at 09:39

@cybertailor @federico3

What would be a good alternative?

[#]JSON? #TOML?

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Written by :So_happy_smiling_cat: kittyfailure on 2025-01-30 at 09:52

@sumanthvepa @federico3 some standard key-value format (TOML, INI, JSON) for simple configs, and a custom lexer&parser to describe complex confuguration with clean and concise syntax

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Toot

Written by /etc/init.d/witch.navi on 2025-01-30 at 09:56

@cybertailor @sumanthvepa @federico3

i also recommend scfg: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/scfg

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Written by federico :debian: on 2025-01-30 at 11:08

@navi @sumanthvepa @cybertailor Wow, scfg looks pretty robust, with named/typed entities and especially if it allows dimensional analysis. It even has a proper BNF.

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Written by arclight on 2025-01-30 at 11:30

@federico3 @navi @sumanthvepa @cybertailor Definitely looks interesting

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