Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ...
by masklinn on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:36PM
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> I think everything I said basically applies to it as well.
TOML is a much simpler format than YAML, and is a dialect/formalisation of INI files which have yet to go out of style. Direct database storage seems like a red herring (why would you want to store a playlist as a json blob?), so does "trivial JS consumption of the file".
[0] the entire spec is 10 pages, and that's with lots of examples, YAML 1.2 is ~80 pages
TOML is a much simpler format than YAML, and is a dialect/formalisation of INI files which have yet to go out of style. Direct database storage seems like a red herring (why would you want to store a playlist as a json blob?), so does "trivial JS consumption of the file".
[0] the entire spec is 10 pages, and that's with lots of examples, YAML 1.2 is ~80 pages