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Show HN: I made Confetti: a configuration language file format

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67 points hgs3 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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. danielvaughn ◴[02 Apr 25 10:14 UTC] No.43555223[source]▶
So weird, I was toying with a DSL 1-2 years ago and strongly considered turning it into a configuration language because the ergonomics were much nicer than JSON or YAML, and reminded me of HCL in a way. It looked very similar to this.

I abandoned the effort, but nice to know that someone else had a similar idea. Will be trying this out!