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What is the best file format for configuration file?
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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This is actually pretty genius, why haven't ever thought of that?
It's so easy to use, and you can read the comments from in your program too!
^(in case you weren't just playing along, please never do comments this way)
I liked the idea to be honest. I can just call the entry "description" instead and all is good ^^
Ideally, you would use TOML for human-readable configuration and document your JSON API with external documentation instead of sending comments around a bunch. If you need to display the description to the end user though, that would be a valid use case.