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configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON files

62 mentions on Hacker News by 55 people: 6 stories, 56 comments · first 2011-12-09 · latest 2025-10-13

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  1. HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config
    comment by kodablah · 2014-06-24 · in Cargo, Rust's Package Manager
  2. I find HOCON better than YAML: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
    comment by hrjet · 2014-03-07 · in Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
  3. …sServer(config.getString("cache.redis_server")) server.put(key, value, ttl=config.getInt("cache.ttl") https://github.com/typesafehub/config Java does have fugly enterprisey frameworks. But it's silly to claim that this is some property of…
    comment by yummyfajitas · 2014-02-27 · in The Emacs Problem (2005)
  4. …ework.com/documentation/2.0.4/Configurati... I can't even grep for productIterator on these projects: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/ https://github.com/playframework/Play20/ That probably means there's no test, example, poor…
    comment by the1 · 2013-02-06 · in Play framework 2.10 released
  5. …We took the aesthetic preferences of the hand-rolled parsers seriously, and came up with HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config (scroll down to "JSON Superset"), https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md The HOCON…
    comment by hp · 2012-05-01 · in Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSON
  6. …has released a nice plain Java, with no dependencies, config library supporting similar syntax: https://github.com/typesafehub/config
    comment by arete · 2012-03-27 · in Type safe config in Scala