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xigoi 88 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

This, along with number formats, could be a good argument for strings being the only primitive type in config languages.

qznc 87 days ago [–]

I recently learned about NestedText: https://nestedtext.org/

While it has the YAML-like significant whitespace, it looks nice because it doesn't try to be clever.

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