go-toml VS ini

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

go-toml

Go library for the TOML file format (by pelletier)

ini

Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go (by go-ini)
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go-toml ini
2 2
1,603 3,394
- 0.4%
7.5 0.0
9 days ago 8 months ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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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

ini

Posts with mentions or reviews of ini. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

toml - Instream TOML to JSON encoder

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

viper - Go configuration with fangs

hocon - go implementation of lightbend's HOCON configuration library https://github.com/lightbend/config

config - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods.

goConfig - goconfig uses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.

kelseyhightower/envconfig - Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables

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

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