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A 💌 to the humans maintaining computer configurations
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…which allows us to reach all these platforms[2] and editors[3] (with even more to come!) [1] https://github.com/kson-org/kson/blob/857d585ef26d9f73e080b5... [2] https://kson.org/docs/install/#languages [3]…
comment by dmarcotte · 2025-09-20 · in Configuration files are user interfaces -
…wants (currently YAML and JSON are supported, with a clear path to adding other targets like TOML < https://github.com/kson-org/kson/issues/202 >) Why is it better than TOML? We don't insist that everyone agree it is! But here's two ways…
comment by dmarcotte · 2025-09-19 · in Show HN: KSON, a love-letter to the humans maintaining computer configuration -
…enough for that, though it's embedded in the source code as a comment and not in its own file (see https://github.com/kson-org/kson/blob/857d585ef26d9f73e080b5... ). It probably can't be fed verbatim into a parser generator, but anyone who…
comment by wofo · 2025-09-19 · in Configuration files are user interfaces -
…programming languages! Edit: point taken about verifying checksums, just created an issue for it ( https://github.com/kson-org/kson/issues/222 )
comment by wofo · 2025-09-18 · in Configuration files are user interfaces -
…version. How do you build the Kotlin version? Well, let's look at the Rust package's build.rs: https://github.com/kson-org/kson/blob/main/lib-rust/kson-sys... It defaults to simply downloading a precompiled library from GitHub, without any…
comment by comex · 2025-09-18 · in Configuration files are user interfaces -
…doesn't complain in this case. I just opened an issue to see if things can be tightened up a bit ( https://github.com/kson-org/kson/issues/221 ). To see misleading indentation warnings in action, you can try the following snippet in the…
comment by wofo · 2025-09-18 · in Configuration files are user interfaces