Like A Duck@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is the best file format for configuration file?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the best file format for configuration file?Like A Duck@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVeraxus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoIf you want the file to be directly human readable/editable: TOML YAML If you never need to look at it or edit it manually: JSON
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoI hate yaml with a passion. for stuff such as ansible it becomes an uneditable mess (one copy and paste away from destroying the whole file) luckily, yaml is a superset of json, so you could just write json and feed it through a yaml parser and it’ll work
If you want the file to be directly human readable/editable:
If you never need to look at it or edit it manually:
I hate yaml with a passion. for stuff such as ansible it becomes an uneditable mess (one copy and paste away from destroying the whole file)
luckily, yaml is a superset of json, so you could just write json and feed it through a yaml parser and it’ll work