Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by dustingetz on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:04PM (#17524691)

Tom, have you heard of EDN and Transit? Like JSON, but:

1. Extensible, custom types

2. Streamy, efficient, compressed and fast, leverages platform's existing native/optimized JSON parsers

3. Wide platform reach

4. Made by Rich Hickey

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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by mojombo on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:12PM (#17524778)

I have not, and while it looks cool, it seems to be optimized for data transfer between applications, not a human readable config format.

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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by KingMob on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:28PM (#17526406)

Transit is more about data transfer, but EDN is mostly meant to be a better JSON (useful date types, doesn't care about commas, has comments, etc)

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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by svacko on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:55PM (#17526618)

There is also a similar project - Hjson, a user interface for JSON- https://hjson.org/

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Re:Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language by epage on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:56PM (#17527132)

For me, hjson takes on some of the warts of yaml (bare strings) which is why I prefer json5 if I'm going for a json variant.

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