Re:A love letter to the CSV format
by lelanthran on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:53AM
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> I feel like YAML is a spiritual successor to the .ini, since it shares a notable ideal of simple human readability/writability.
It doesn't feel that way to me: it's neither simple to read nor to write. I suppose that that's a builtin problem due to tree representation, which is something that INI files were never expected to represent.
TBH, I actually prefer the various tree representation workarounds used by INI files: using whitespace to indicate child nodes stops being readable once you have more than a screenful of children in a node.
It doesn't feel that way to me: it's neither simple to read nor to write. I suppose that that's a builtin problem due to tree representation, which is something that INI files were never expected to represent.
TBH, I actually prefer the various tree representation workarounds used by INI files: using whitespace to indicate child nodes stops being readable once you have more than a screenful of children in a node.