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Yet another INI parser

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2023-09-21 · latest 2025-10-13

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  1. …enjoy reading this take on the subject [2]. [1] https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#offset-date-time [2] https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
  2. …etc, but they do their job well. I will be bookmarking this like I have the ini critique of toml: https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique... I think the first line of the toml critique applies to CSV: it's a federation…
    comment by account-5 · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format
  3. Required reading for anybody considering using TOML for something: https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
    comment by LorenDB · 2025-02-19 · in TOML [Tom's Obvious Minimal Language]
  4. …way it's personal preference. I do occasionally like to reread this though (because I'm boring): https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
  5. …and honestly I'm coming around to it because for complex types you end up typing everything twice. https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
  6. Personally I prefer INI over nearly all configuration formats. https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
    comment by account-5 · 2024-01-23 · in Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
  7. you might want to read this fine piece of propaganda https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
  8. I assume they used the "prepare.sh" script for that 50M file: https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/tree/master/dev/test... (you need to clone the repo to run it, because it depends on some other files in there). The file it generates is…
    comment by arp242 · 2023-09-21 · in An INI Critique of TOML (2021)
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