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Why do I hate TOML and love YAML? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by RapidScampi@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I dunno why, but I have a thing against TOML. I could be reading a blog post and marvelling at the intellect of the author, but if it cuts to a code snippet of TOML I smack my teeth and question how I ended up on such an amateur site.

My opinion is not rational neither is it grounded in any technical reasoning or logic. I'd even consider myself syntactically promiscuous when it comes to pretty much any other markup language. For some reason YAML and TOML make me feel like I need to pick sides and I'm definitely a YAMLite.

I'm curious to know whether anyone else is this abnormally partisan towards YAML and TOML?

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[-] ithilelda@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

From my point of view, most things related to software config is hierachical, meaning that a tree like structure is the most intuitive in understanding them. YAML is tree based, while TOML is section based. I find YAML much easier to keep track of. And I have great experience with Python, so the indentation is pretty straight forward for me.

But I'm not picking sides and defying the other. It's purely personal mind set related. Actually I do find some workflow very suited for TOML, like build systems, where each task is in its own section, shouting clear cut domain and dependency boundaries.

[-] iavael@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

TOML is tree-based too. It's just more verbose than YAML for explicivity.

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