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		Pxtl on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) The problem with ini is that it has no good story for arrays or associative arrays. TOML attempts to fix this, but it provides ugly format for arrays and associative arrays.

afiori on April 13, 2019 [–]

I personally find the TOML solution quite nice. In part because you can always drop to JSON syntax to avoid excessive nesting of array tables.

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