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67 points hgs3 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source

Hello everyone, I created Confetti: a simple, typeless, and localization-friendly configuration language designed for human-editable configuration files.

In my opinion, JSON works well for data interchange, but it's overused for configuration, it's not localization-friendly, and it's too syntactically noisy. INI is simple but lacks hierarchical structures and doesn't have a formal specification. Confetti is intended to bridge the gap.

I aim to keep Confetti simple and minimalistic, while encouraging others to extend it. Think of it like Markdown for configuration files: there's a core specification, but your welcome to create your own variations that suit your needs.

1. alpaca128 ◴[] No.43554799[source]
Looks similar to my favorite format KDL: https://kdl.dev/

Good to see a push towards less syntactic overhead, which is still considerable in JSON.