I also like how it just does one thing: key/values. It doesn’t try to be a complex serialization format or its own full language - it’s just keys and their valu

I also like how it just does one thing: key/values. It doesn’t try to be a complex serialization format or its own full language - it’s just keys and their values. Granted, sometimes data needs to have more structure, but for settings/flags INI is very good.