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In the scale world, HOCON is very nice. It’s a format designed explicitly for config files, and has a lot of niceties (like you can append files together and th
by mcphage 7y ago
In the scale world, HOCON is very nice. It’s a format designed explicitly for config files, and has a lot of niceties (like you can append files together and they merge correctly, so you don’t have to end up with giant config files)
- SeanA208 7y agoI agree with HOCON being nice based on personal usage but I haven't seen an in depth analysis of it. This is the canonical parser for JVM based languages — https://github.com/lightbend/config https://github.com/lightbend/config, are there many other implementations that are widely used?
- rch 7y agoThat's the one Akka uses, which probably comprises the majority of HOCON usage. I've also used the Python port without issues.
- twic 7y agoWhat's the "scale" world?
- TJSomething 7y agoI think they meant "Scala", the programming language.
- mcphage 7y agoSorry, yes, Scala. Autocorrect changed it and I didn't notice.