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mharig on Sept 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

For config files and the like, StrictYAML is the way to go. https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/toml/

AndyKluger on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

Unfortunately that's not a spec, only a (language-specific) tool.

For a similar spec that offers no types outside of string, list, and dict, there's NestedText.

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