go-toml VS hocon

Compare go-toml vs hocon and see what are their differences.

hocon

go implementation of lightbend's HOCON configuration library https://github.com/lightbend/config (by gurkankaymak)
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go-toml hocon
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1,633 72
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7.5 5.6
13 days ago 4 months ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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go-toml

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-toml. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • What Is Wrong with TOML?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
    I wrote one of the Go implementations [0] when TOML was announced and have maintained it since.

    As a library implementor, I wish arrays would hold only one type at a time, but I get that could be useful for users. But as a user, I wish tables were fully defined once (more can't be added up later in the file), especially when using larger files.

    [0]: https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml

  • Hw to open these files locally using vs code?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 14 May 2023
    Looks like a it's struggling to install a go dependency, something prob changed since the time this project was made and now. I don't use go but someone more familiar with it can prob help you. Googling the error brought me to this it might solve your problem https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/discussions/562

hocon

Posts with mentions or reviews of hocon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning hocon yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-toml and hocon you can also consider the following projects:

viper - Go configuration with fangs

toml - Instream TOML to JSON encoder

ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go

hjson - Hjson for Go

env - A simple and zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs

konfig - Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go for the distributed processing era

go-ini - Go package that encodes and decodes INI-files

toml - TOML parser for Golang with reflection.

aconfig - Simple, useful and opinionated config loader.

koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.