Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS

Thank you! Types have no business in a configuration format when the app already has a defined schema. Most formats try to convey all of the information needed to reconstruct an object, but that's totally unnecessary and only serves to complicate the syntax and introduce unnecessary errors/mishandlings.

Are there any other config syntaxes that do this? Besides ad-hoc INI, that is.

darccio•1h ago

Confetti [0] was shared recently here at HN. It's described as "simple, typeless, and localization-friendly configuration language designed for human-editable configuration files".

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534240

edoceo•1h ago

Would have like # or // as the comment. The issues raised about them (URLs) are solved in other tooling by rules like first chars on their own line to comment.

3eb7988a1663•1h ago

  ; Quoting is rarely required. Keys and values can contain pretty
  ; much any character except ; (and = for keys).
  spaced out key = value with = signs and "quotes"!

That one makes my spider sense tingle, but it does seem elegant at making it easier to write.

eichin•9m ago

As a python and markdown user, the triple-quoted strings never ending bugs me, or am I misreading the examples?