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0 pointsskydhash3d ago0 comments

I still prefer ini files for configuration. Easier to grep and sed.

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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.

beart3d ago

They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store.

skydhashOP3d 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,…)

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tracker13d 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.

beart3d ago

They work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store.

skydhashOP3d 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,…)

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