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TOML is worse and even harder to read. I'd take YAML any day over TOML.

Yaml is a sad Icarus parable. The syntax is great but the type inference is too much. I don't see why we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and settle for toml, though.

Here's how yaml's type inference should work:

- All object keys are strings (with or without quotes)

- Value atoms are parsed the exact same way as in JSON5

I'm kinda shocked this isn't a thing. StrictYAML is cool but a bit too cumbersome IMO.

The thinking that would lead one to the conclusion of "yeah, fine, pick whatever characters you want for the string contents" is a "you are I are solving different problems"

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/blob/1.0.0/toml.md#user-co...

But toml isn't any better than yaml. It's difficult to read