that ship sailed. toml is a prominent example of the least-worst option gaining traction. For configuration files that need to be human editable, provide com

that ship sailed. toml is a prominent example of the least-worst option gaining traction. For configuration files that need to be human editable, provide comments, but are machine readable and have broad support, TOML is the choice that the plurality has settled on. In python, it’s in core tools like pip; it’s not going away because we don’t like how you nest collections awkwardly or whatever. at least it’s Norway YAML!