> types are deferred until parse time; the app knows what it wants.
Thank you! Types have no business in a configuration format when the app already has a defined schema. Most formats try to convey all of the information needed to reconstruct an object, but that's totally unnecessary and only serves to complicate the syntax and introduce unnecessary errors/mishandlings.
Are there any other config syntaxes that do this? Besides ad-hoc INI, that is.
Confetti [0] was shared recently here at HN. It's described as "simple, typeless, and localization-friendly configuration language designed for human-editable configuration files".
Thank you! Types have no business in a configuration format when the app already has a defined schema. Most formats try to convey all of the information needed to reconstruct an object, but that's totally unnecessary and only serves to complicate the syntax and introduce unnecessary errors/mishandlings.
Are there any other config syntaxes that do this? Besides ad-hoc INI, that is.