TOML doesn't "fit static languages" better and is just as dynamically typed as YAML. It's used extensively in the Python ecosystem, which has TOML in stdlib (no

TOML doesn't "fit static languages" better and is just as dynamically typed as YAML. It's used extensively in the Python ecosystem, which has TOML in stdlib (not YAML). I'm less sure about protobufs in Python (I never tried), but in general relying too much on Python's dynamic nature is not a good thing IMHO.