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That criticism feels weak to me outside of the scope of "StrictYaml vs TOML". Within that context, I might agree, having just heard of StrictYaml today. Having dealt with the full blast of complexity YAML and especially XML and XML Schema has in store... TOML is probably one of the top 2-3 config languages I'd use.

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More-so, what tooling relies upon StrictYAML? I can immediately point to the TOML spec and every language is going to have a library which reads it. Some off-brand YAML flavor is not ideal. We cannot even standardize on JSON5. As superior-but-mutated language has nothing but uphill battles towards adoption.

> every language is going to have a library

Thankfully with python we have 6

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