NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML

Re:NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by vlovich123 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:59AM (#24676822)

You store your configuration as plain text in your repository and whatnot. When it comes to deployment you just compile it to a binary file.

Cap’n’proto also has plain text and JSON serialization formats if you really want to have your deployed config file be directly human-editable and deserialize from that. I was just noting a very cool feature of having your config written in cap’n’proto and it’s what Cloudflare uses to maintain a bunch of config internally if I read Kenton’s allusions to it correctly.

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Re:NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by vlovich123 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:21AM (#24679657)

Just to be clear, I'm saying you use Cap'n'Proto constants to store your schema: https://capnproto.org/language.html#constants

You can then compile it into whatever format (JSON, plain text, binary) that you want for actually reading it from disk.

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