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  • petre 42 seconds

    Wealteady have TOML and it's good enough.

  • lightandlight 25 minutes

    Ironically the project seems LLM-generated.

    I don't want to read Claude's interpretation of why your project matters. I want you to tell me directly.

  • esafak 52 minutes

    Can you add README sections for the schema and supported types?

  • paulddraper 59 minutes

    > Top-level arrays. A TOML file is always a table, so a list of records needs a wrapper key.

    I'm curious for example configs that are top-level lists?

  • arionmiles 49 minutes

    See also: HUML [1]

    1: https://huml.io/

  • james_marks 17 minutes

    From the title, I thought this was a specification for configuring humans. I don't quite know what that means, and I'm disappointed still not to know.

  • jll29 51 minutes

    Looks like Windows *.ini format except ":" instead of "="...

    CodesInChaos 42 minutes

    Not really. INI has a fixed structure (section>key>value) and its values are untyped.

  • CodesInChaos 44 minutes

    What I'm missing:

    1. The readme doesn't make it clear what its "float" type is. A double, a decimal, implementation defined. I'm generally not a fan of restricting numbers to what a double can represent, like toml does.

    2. It doesn't have a good way to model key-value pair like types such as tagged unions, polymorphic types, or function invocations. Simply allowing a key-value pair as a value (right associative) where the key is a string matching the keys of an object would fix this. Alternatively a function call syntax would fix this, which would also enable tuples as a concept distinct from arrays.

    bjacobso 5 minutes

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  • drvd 46 minutes

    So a stripped down variant of cue? Why not use cue directly?

    brianm 35 minutes

    Cue only really exists in go, and has a dependency chain to make maven weep.

    I think cue is better thought of as a language you use to generate JSON (or yaml, or, let's be honest, k8s flavored yaml) configs rather than a config language you use in your app.

    mgantlett 29 minutes

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