• carl_the_grackle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yaml is fine until you want to abbreviate Norway and get false… toml doesn’t handle everything well but at least it doesn’t have insane problems like that.

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      1 year ago

      While that shouldn’t happen with a current-spec YAML parser, I agree even the current spec does way too much with types.

      I’ve come to love NestedText’s approach of leaving all type handling to the ingesting code.

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          1 year ago

          Would you suggest a topic or tooling to pair with it, so I can provide a good demo for working with it in a real and useful context?

          I made a CLI tool for working with it but want to avoid making a look-at-me spammy post, and I think the NestedText site itself explains the ideas pretty well already.

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            1 year ago

            First, I have to apologize, I just meant post a link to NestText as a post in c/Python. I definitely didn’t mean to imply you should have to go write a blog post (or something) about it just for me. I swear this was just an attempt to get another person posting interesting things to c/Python. 😬

            Looking through the community projects and docs, the use cases/tooling that really stood out to me were:

            Thinking about how I might use it: