The windows registry is somewhat like this - a huge extensible data structure containing all the config of a system. Not really portable though (or is it? been

The windows registry is somewhat like this - a huge extensible data structure containing all the config of a system. Not really portable though (or is it? been a while since I dug deep on a windows box) Also NeXT/Apple .plist files worked like this. And looking at modern "DevOps" tooling, we have YAML, or tools that transform YAML into templates and config loaded into other systems (Helm, some parts of Ansible, etc.)