I noticed a few people here doing double takes at HOCON, which I did as well (let's say it's a good instinct). After using it, things made a lot more sense. *

I noticed a few people here doing double takes at HOCON, which I did as well (let's say it's a good instinct). After using it, things made a lot more sense. * Old school Gnome users may recognize its original author Havoc Pennington. * Although it's a Java library, it's more natural in a Scala; the config objects are immutable, and Scala people like to rewrite the whole world anyway * It's a very nice way to organize and write configuration files, although for our team we needed a session to understand how the final configuration was being derived since there can be multiple configuration files as well as the fallback/default values in reference.conf.