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| ron | kdl | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 14 | |
| 3,118 | 1,032 | |
| 2.5% | 4.1% | |
| 7.9 | 5.8 | |
| 16 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Rust | ||
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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ron
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XML is better than YAML
Whenever this kind of arguments come up, I am sad that RON (https://github.com/ron-rs/ron) is not better known. To me it feels like a cleaner and better JSON.
In any case, my little experience with it had made me hate YAML. Generally speaking, I have come to dislike any language with significant whitespace other than Haskell.
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What config format do you prefer?
Part of the reason why I migrated away from RON in system76-scheduler is because I needed to rely on the 253-untagged-enums branch from https://github.com/MomoLangenstein/ron. Which still isn't resolved today: https://github.com/ron-rs/ron/pull/451.
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Ron: Rusty Object Notation
Serde is strongly, strictly typed: you have to specify what type you want to decode to. It’s nothing like Python’s Pickle protocol.
See, for example, https://github.com/ron-rs/ron/blob/484fcab0686dfd18c7e29b6c1..., where it (in a type-inferency way) says “parse as Config”.
- JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
- Ron – Rusty Object Notation
- They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity
kdl
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XL: An Extensible Programming Language
IMO, there’s a wide unexplored design space between the minimalism of Lisp and richness of other languages. A programming language inspired by something like KDL (https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl) has the potential to be in a very sweet spot between the two. "Everything is a node" instead of "everything is a list" is only slightly more complicated, but also vastly more readable that a soup of parenthesis.
- Things you didn't know you could fuzz - FuzzingWeekly CW17
- Things you didn’t know you could fuzz: - FuzzingWeekly CW17
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SDLang – Simple Declarative Language
KDL is a variant of SDLang that’s worth checking out.
https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl
- KDL
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Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣 (2018)
Either way I've got high hopes for KDL becoming the new gold standard for clean, flexible data formats that are editable by hand.
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The KDL Document Language
I'd love to understand why all the advertised implementations have permissive licenses except for the Rust implementation, which is released under the Parity Public License 7.0.0 [1]? This seems to be as restrictive as the GPL, no?
In my mind, copyleft licenses applied to infrastructural projects like kdl-rs prematurely limits their adoption and promotes the development of alternatives with more permissive licensing, since the spec is released under a Creative Commons license [2].
[1]: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl-rs/blob/87f836134c1d901ff5ce6...
[2]: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl/blob/785abebfc507ff6b7bdeac07...
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The KDL Document Language, an alternative to YAML/JSON/XML
p.s. if anyone is interested in helping or just wants the info, this is the tracking issue for implementations supporting 1.0 (the actual thing that just got released): https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl/issues/144
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ParserObjects Parser Combinator Library for .NET
Oh nice. It will be a nice library to use to parse KDL (https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl)
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The YAML file of Prometheus Operator has over 13k lines, one of the longest YAML files on GitHub ever
It's still in its infancy but I'm keeping an eye on kdl
What are some alternatives?
toml.io - Source Code for toml.io
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
prometheus-operator - Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
minimal-yaml - A minimalist, zero-copy parser for a strict subset of the Yaml specification.
config - configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON files
yaml-reference-parser
jsonjsc - A Python JSONDecoder library for parsing out Javascript comments in JSON files.
typescript-json-schema - Generate json-schema from your Typescript sources
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
yamllint - A linter for YAML files.
Slim - Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.