What Is Wrong with TOML?

Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:33AM (#37495337)

I do this, but regularly get annoyed with the date, comment, trailing comma, mandatory key quotes, etc

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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by retzkek on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:05PM (#37498554)

Maybe you'd like jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/

I find it particularly useful for configurations that often have repeated boilerplate, like ansible playbooks or deploying a bunch of "similar-but" services to kubernetes (with https://tanka.dev).

Dhall is also quite interesting, with some tradeoffs: https://dhall-lang.org/

A few years ago I did a small comparison by re-implementing one of my simpler ansible playbooks: https://github.com/retzkek/ansible-dhall-jsonnet

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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by paulddraper on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:12PM (#37499053)

jsonnet is turing complete.

It's configuration with a build step. Which is an option, but that's pretty different than JSON, YAML, TOML, etc.

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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:43PM (#37500121)

If I have to use a better format, I will use toml or cue.

The whole point of the parent is that JSON is the Pareto solution, which I agree with.

But it does grind my gear.

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