Stop. Just stop this madness. Nobody needs any new formats. We had s-expressions. They were OK. We had ASN.1. It was OK. We had .ini files. They were OK-ish.

Stop. Just stop this madness. Nobody needs any new formats. We had s-expressions. They were OK. We had ASN.1. It was OK. We had .ini files. They were OK-ish. We had XML. It was OK. We had JSON. It was OK. We had YAML. It was OK. We had TOML. It was OK. We had probably a million other fundamentally isomorphic solutions to this basically trivial problem, and each of them was more or less OK. What is not OK is endless proliferation because somebody has some trivial gripe and wants to make a name for themselves.