I dunno why, but I have a thing against TOML. I could be reading a blog post and marvelling at the intellect of the author, but if it cuts to a code snippet of TOML I smack my teeth and question how I ended up on such an amateur site.

My opinion is not rational neither is it grounded in any technical reasoning or logic. I’d even consider myself syntactically promiscuous when it comes to pretty much any other markup language. For some reason YAML and TOML make me feel like I need to pick sides and I’m definitely a YAMLite.

I’m curious to know whether anyone else is this abnormally partisan towards YAML and TOML?

  • xkcd__386@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I suspect you’re either reacting to the “Tom” (which is what the T in TOML stands for), making it sound like some “one guy’s” project that never really took off…

    …or the fact that it reminds you of the Windows INI file format. (TBH, git’s config file also uses something that reminds me of Windows INI, and it took me a while to get over it)