Oh no. This looks like the horrible config format a colleague of mine invented at Yahoo when making an absolutely horrific config system. This brings back bad

Oh no. This looks like the horrible config format a colleague of mine invented at Yahoo when making an absolutely horrific config system. This brings back bad memories. This may look cute but it is horrific when dealing with large configs and you have to reconstruct all the structure in your head. Also, when you have a format that nests using brackets, braces and parenthesis, you can get help from the editor. This format does not give you that. I'm not a huge fan of JSON (and the above mentioned format was invented because none of us were fans of XML at the time), but it turns out that both XML and JSON are actually easier to work with in practice than this format. Not least because there is ample tooling for JSON (and XML). The lesson I learnt: I may hate XML (or in this case JSON), but finding an alternative that is better is not easy.