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It seemed to me that he favors TOML, but I agree it'd be interesting to read an article advocating for his preferred format.
by gilrain 8y ago
It seemed to me that he favors TOML, but I agree it'd be interesting to read an article advocating for his preferred format.
- Carpetsmoker 8y agoI wrote this article, and at this point I don't really have a strong preference for any one format. I think a lot depends on what it's used for. YAML can actually be pretty useful. For example, recently I wrote a tool to generate OpenAPI/Swagger files from Go source code, and outputting that as YAML works pretty well, as YAML is quite easy to read for that. YAML can also be a good choice to serialize some things to disk, like program state. JSON can also be a good choice for that, as can TOML. But for other things ... it's not so great. I should probably write an article detailing this at some point, but ... $ ls -1 /data/code/arp242.net/_drafts | wc -l 64 So much stuff I need to finish :-( I've added your suggestion there though!