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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: 0.256s | 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.

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mncharity ◴[02 Apr 25 12:09 UTC] No.43555805[source]▶
JSON, jsonc, json5, hcl, kdl, scfg, caddyfile... and that's just from earlier comments. After a brief search, puzzled, I ask: Is there really no more thorough comparison than wikipedia's[1]? No syntax-across-languages[2]? No design space characterization?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati... [2] https://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.ht...

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1. arkh ◴[02 Apr 25 12:38 UTC] No.43555956[source]▶
Pkl to bind them all?

https://pkl-lang.org/index.html