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105 mentions on Hacker News by 93 people: 15 stories, 90 comments · first 2013-02-24 · latest 2026-03-31

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  1. …benefits of JSON and YAML, but it's not so complicated to parse and does not depend on indentation. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  2. …ballance between simplicity and features for config files. It ends up being easy to read and write. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  3. I rather like TOML https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by ch4s3 · 2016-09-05 · in Bugs in the YAML specification
  4. Very nice! Another saner alternative to YAML which I like is TOML: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by jean- · 2016-09-04 · in Bugs in the YAML specification
  5. …it up to parser, to avoid requiring all other languages to reimplement half of Java 8 Time. [2] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/414 [3] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/362 [4] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/412 [5]…
    comment by niftich · 2016-08-26 · in The Fixing-JSON Conversation
  6. That's a really good point. I opened an issue: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/429
    comment by ymse · 2016-08-21 · in Fixing JSON
  7. …makes me sad. (Though not as sad as the config-in-XML thing the Java ecosystem suffered from.) 1: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by cies · 2016-08-20 · in Fixing JSON
  8. TOML #because it allows comments https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by HoopleHead · 2016-08-08 · in Ask HN: JSON vs. XML?
  9. …correspondence with JSON, but is more friendly for configuration (comments are a huge help!) [0]: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  10. …format is probably canonical S-expressions" I personally think TOML is a bit more readable... https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  11. …is possible with TOML, but I'd agree that it could get pretty awkward depending on your needs: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#array-of-tables for example. I personally don't mind YAML all that much either, although the spec is pretty…
    comment by mtalantikite · 2016-04-15 · in Hjson, the Human JSON
  12. …a config format cumbersome though (like in Packer) and there are plenty of TOML parsers out there ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#v040-compliant ). Maybe that's an argument for languages to start adding some configuration format other…
    comment by mtalantikite · 2016-04-14 · in Hjson, the Human JSON
  13. TOML. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  14. …file format. It has exactly the same expressiveness, but much more human-readable. [1] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by barosl · 2015-07-11 · in JSON Configurable Personal Site
  15. …arbitrary data structures, while being very readable. Spec is not entirely stable yet, though. 1: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by mercurial · 2015-04-07 · in JSON vs. YAML – try it yourself
  16. Currently, I prefer [toml]( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml ) for configuration. Both languages can be exported to JSON.
    comment by andridk · 2015-01-04 · in Universal configuration language
  17. I like toml files. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
  18. …soon. Because comments. And trailing commas. Rust Crate is already using TOML for package metadata. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html
  19. Link for the lazy https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
    comment by klez · 2014-11-22 · in FreeBSD: the next 10 years
  20. I see many mentions of YAML in the comments, but why not TOML? ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml )
    comment by garrison · 2014-10-09 · in Hjson, the Human JSON
  21. …object notation format. We have json for read-only object notation and both YAML and TOML ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml ) for human-writable stuff, config files etc. These formats are strongest when they are widespread and people…
  22. …updated in several months. But that seems like a shaky foundation to be building on top of. From: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml "Latest tagged version: v0.2.0. Be warned, this spec is still changing a lot. Until it's marked as 1.0, you…
    comment by nirvdrum · 2014-06-24 · in Cargo, Rust's Package Manager
  23. …ubiquitous as JSON or YAML, but I do like TOML better than both of those for configuration.) [1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml#implementations
    comment by burntsushi · 2014-03-02 · in JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
  24. …The good parts) but it's comments can carry metadata, which is a huge turn-off, others think TOML ( https://github.com/mojombo/toml ) is a good replacement, but it has no support for alternate number types. You write in something like mask…
  25. …fix it. There's a interesting format for configuration called TOML[1], you should check it out! [1] https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by daGrevis · 2014-03-02 · in JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
  26. I honestly thought TOML ( https://github.com/mojombo/toml - created by founder of Github) was a good configuration format. But unfortunately, I'm not sure that Tom has been a good steward of it and most of the interest in the early dies…
    comment by jonpaul · 2014-03-01 · in JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
  27. …more simple but also as easy to read as YAML and we use it in our projects without any issues. 0. https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by alptrv · 2014-03-01 · in JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
  28. …opinion against YAML[1]. [0]: https://github.com/atom/language-toml/blob/master/grammars/t... [1]: https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by espadrine · 2014-02-26 · in GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
  29. …and the product development process: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/berglund-product-owners [1] https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by DanielRibeiro · 2013-11-14 · in How GitHub No Longer Works
  30. Hence TOML was born: https://github.com/mojombo/toml It has parsers for nearly every language, I wrote one for js: http://npmjs.org/package/tomljs
    comment by ricardobeat · 2013-08-02 · in Comments in JSON
  31. TOML is nice for config files: https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by buro9 · 2013-08-02 · in Comments in JSON
  32. …bad will happen to you. That's why I prefer TOML. I wish more projects would pick it up for config. https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by dasil003 · 2013-07-31 · in Why I Left Medium
  33. I think TOML [1] would be even more suitable. [1] https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2013-04-09 · in Setting up Sublime Text 2
  34. TOML will solve all these problems. More structured than JSON, easier to consume than XML. https://github.com/mojombo/toml
    comment by smrtinsert · 2013-04-08 · in How to share your data effectively
  35. https://github.com/mojombo/toml#implementations
    comment by joshbaptiste · 2013-02-25 · in A Toml parser library for Go
  36. Nice. Can we figure all this out all these things before we get too far with this? https://github.com/mojombo/toml/issues/42
    comment by damncabbage · 2013-02-25 · in GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting
  37. https://github.com/mojombo/toml/commit/e54978f05197d16fde3ef... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634
  38. This has been fixed. [1] [1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml/commit/aa4ac1d6df1031ebe871c...
    comment by burntsushi · 2013-02-24 · in TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
  39. …types in `TOML` can be mixed at the level of the hash table. Arrays ought to be homogeneous. [1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml/issues/28
    comment by burntsushi · 2013-02-24 · in TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
  40. …the authors own words[1]: { 'because': { '80': 'percent' }, {'of': 'JSON', 'is': 'brackets' } } [1] https://github.com/mojombo/toml/issues/2#issuecomment-140029...
    comment by DanielRibeiro · 2013-02-24 · in TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language