← Back to context Comment by skydhash 9 hours ago I still prefer ini files for configuration. Easier to grep and sed. 3 comments skydhash Reply tracker1 5 hours ago You can get a bit more if you use TOML over INI... it's similar at a baseline, but still a bit more rich for advanced configuration than INI is. beart 6 hours ago They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store. skydhash 3 hours ago My belief is that anything that requires more than that are hiding the fact that what they truly need is a DSL. Instead they force you to write AST (ansible, github actions, docker compose,…)
tracker1 5 hours ago You can get a bit more if you use TOML over INI... it's similar at a baseline, but still a bit more rich for advanced configuration than INI is.
beart 6 hours ago They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store. skydhash 3 hours ago My belief is that anything that requires more than that are hiding the fact that what they truly need is a DSL. Instead they force you to write AST (ansible, github actions, docker compose,…)
skydhash 3 hours ago My belief is that anything that requires more than that are hiding the fact that what they truly need is a DSL. Instead they force you to write AST (ansible, github actions, docker compose,…)
You can get a bit more if you use TOML over INI... it's similar at a baseline, but still a bit more rich for advanced configuration than INI is.
They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store.
My belief is that anything that requires more than that are hiding the fact that what they truly need is a DSL. Instead they force you to write AST (ansible, github actions, docker compose,…)