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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: 0s | 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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h1fra ◴[02 Apr 25 10:01 UTC] No.43555157[source]▶
I don't trust a config file that doesn't enforce quotes around strings. it's a footgun especially when it collides with ill-defined boolean
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gampleman ◴[02 Apr 25 10:14 UTC] No.43555224[source]▶
I think you missed the "typeless" idea. That basically means every value is a string and so it's up for the application to parse and validate.
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h1fra ◴[02 Apr 25 13:13 UTC] No.43556304[source]▶
so you mean a config file that can have a different meaning depending on who's parsing? sounds nice and not dangerous at all
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1. gampleman ◴[03 Apr 25 07:44 UTC] No.43566214[source]▶
Isn't the meaning of a config file always dependent on the application you are configuring?