> What does HN suggest for configuration files (to be written by a human essentially)?
JSON.
YAML confuses many people by being whitespace-sensitive; ini files I find too limited.
JSON.
YAML confuses many people by being whitespace-sensitive; ini files I find too limited.
It just makes me wonder what the hell they thought they were doing all that time... It's like designing something called YACC, and ending up with an interpreter interpreter!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML
>Originally YAML was said to mean Yet Another Markup Language, referencing its purpose as a markup language with the yet another construct, but it was then repurposed as YAML Ain't Markup Language, a recursive acronym, to distinguish its purpose as data-oriented, rather than document markup.
It is really a pleasure to use compared to JSON and XML. While it may not be as compact as ProtoBuffers, Thrift, or Avro, it is human readable and also valid Clojure code. Libraries are ready available to convert it to JSON.