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What is the best file format for configuration file? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1743099

.yaml, .toml, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For simple stuff, INI is pretty good.

I must admit I've written stuff that uses a JSON config file, but I might finish implementing YAML instead. Any day now...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I'm not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could use TOML. It's pretty much an extension of INI