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0 pointscrdoconnor7y ago0 comments

TOML is syntactically noisy and about 50% more verbose.

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cyphar7y ago· 2 in thread

I'm not sure how

    [general]
    foo = bar

is 50% more verbose than

    { "general": { "foo": "bar" } }

But also it's significantly more human-readable (and critically, it's much more human-writable).

crdoconnorOP7y ago

It starts to get more verbose when you have more keys and deeper indentation since the whole hierarchy is repeated for each key e.g. [general.foo.bar.bar].

JSON wasn't intended for maximal human readability/writability like CSON/YAML were. It was intended first and foremost as a simple data transmission format.

richardwhiuk7y ago

Large hierarchies are always difficult in plain text formats. I'd argue if you need the user programming the config to understand a large hierarchy then you've already got a problem.

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