Re:TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
by arp242 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @09:29AM
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It's not ideal, I agree, but it solves real problems for people, so there's that.
Many commonly-used standards today weren't created by a bunch of wise men in a room thinking how to bestow their wisdom upon the rest of us, they often originated in real-world applications, were refined over a period of time based pn real-world experience, and then became a standard.
TOML is the same. I hope it will become an RFC some day. We just need to fix a few outstanding issues first.
Most commonly used TOML parsers support 1.0; adding 1.1 support should be pretty easy as the changes aren't that large (I did it in the parser I maintain, and it's 10 lines of code or so that had to be changed, most of them quite trivial).
Many commonly-used standards today weren't created by a bunch of wise men in a room thinking how to bestow their wisdom upon the rest of us, they often originated in real-world applications, were refined over a period of time based pn real-world experience, and then became a standard.
TOML is the same. I hope it will become an RFC some day. We just need to fix a few outstanding issues first.
Most commonly used TOML parsers support 1.0; adding 1.1 support should be pretty easy as the changes aren't that large (I did it in the parser I maintain, and it's 10 lines of code or so that had to be changed, most of them quite trivial).