Let the apologists have a field day in the comments.

      • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
        20·
        13 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve definitely grown to like TOML, especially after spending hours trying to edit a giant (nested) YAML file…

        I didn’t realize the indentation in TOML was purely aesthetic.

        This

        [servers]
  [servers.alpha]
  ip = "10.0.0.1"
  dc = "eqdc10"

  [servers.beta]
  ip = "10.0.0.2"
  dc = "eqdc10"

        equals this

        [servers]
[servers.alpha]
ip = "10.0.0.1"
dc = "eqdc10"

[servers.beta]
ip = "10.0.0.2"
dc = "eqdc10"

        which equals this

        {
  "servers": {
    "alpha": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.1",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    },
    "beta": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.2",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    }
  }
}
        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          13 days ago

          Once the file is big enough wouldn’t it be better to convert it to json before editing, then converting it back?

          Let the computer deal with indents and all that stuff.

          • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            Because … well … wait, not a bad idea. Although, this would get rid of comments. Which in my case, I didn’t have too many, so I could have manually added them back.