strictyaml VS nestedtext

Compare strictyaml vs nestedtext and see what are their differences.

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strictyaml nestedtext
21 8
1,402 331
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1.9 7.6
16 days ago 11 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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strictyaml

Posts with mentions or reviews of strictyaml. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.

nestedtext

Posts with mentions or reviews of nestedtext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.
  • The yaml document from hell
    8 projects | /r/programming | 12 Jan 2023
    As /u/astatine said, an excellent but under-recognized alternative syntax for configuration files is NestedText, where everything is a string unless the ingesting code says otherwise, and there is no escaping needed ever.
  • Yaml: First Class Citizen?
    2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 24 Dec 2022
    I don't know what traits from markdown you'd hope for, but for a relatively obscure but technically excellent format, you can check out NestedText.
  • A Nigthtmare called YML
    2 projects | /r/programming | 24 Oct 2022
    I recently came to appreciate and favor an alternative format called NestedText. Like YAML, indentation is used for structure, so like YAML, you may hate it.
  • nt2: a CLI converter between NestedText and JSON, YAML, or TOML
    2 projects | /r/Python | 3 Oct 2022
    I recently discovered NestedText, and really appreciate the design. To me, it hits the nail on the head where projects like strictyaml and hjson come very close.
  • YAML: It's Time to Move On
    29 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2021
    I'm glad to see people experimenting with alternative document/object representations, but this one might be a hard sell: based on the README[1], it only has Python, Zig and Janet implementations so far. One of the nice things about YAML (and JSON, TOML, etc.) is that they have decently mature C, C++, or Rust libraries that other languages bind to.

    [1]: https://github.com/KenKundert/nestedtext

What are some alternatives?

When comparing strictyaml and nestedtext you can also consider the following projects:

pyyaml - Canonical source repository for PyYAML

ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text

crudini - A utility for manipulating ini files

sublime-json5 - JSON5 support for Sublime Text

yaml-rust - A pure rust YAML implementation.

starlark-go - Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go

json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans

hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript

node-convict - Featureful configuration management library for Node.js

validator - Simple validation for Rust structs

cson - CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.

confuse - painless YAML config files for Python