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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: 0.217s | 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. Heliodex ◴[03 Apr 25 00:31 UTC] No.43563430[source]▶
Loving this! Like other commenters here the syntax reminds me of KDL, except a lot simpler. I checked it out and was fully nerdsniped, so wrote an implementation <https://github.com/Heliodex/confetti-go> that passes all conformance tests, giving me a good feel for the language. Pretty easy to get working as well, though I haven't tried adding any of the appendices yet.