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Ambitious decision. As if docket-compose is the only tool that uses the word compose, and there is no other extremely common tool, that uses for configuration, for instance, files like composer.json and composer.lock.

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I’m on my phone and haven’t double checked this, but from my understanding, I believe it’s part of an effort to encourage compatibility with other tools like podman. The ambiguity is somewhat intentional, as an active decision to separate the implementation name from the configuration standard.

composer.json is from PHP. Config file for package manage (almost universal).

So it will be even bigger pain in the keyboard to write them :(

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