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Personally I prefer INI over nearly all configuration formats.

https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...

I have seen this post on HN before and I wasn't received very well AFAIR.

But I can't help agreeing with its main point: so much complexity to support a few basic data types that are not sufficient for anything complex anyway.

If you haven't checked it out, NestedText is a great format that offers no handling of types beyond string/list/dict, leaving all that to the application reading in the values.

No character needs escaping.

Thanks, that might be just what I'm looking for!

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