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Apr 3, 2015 at 23:59
TOML is growing on me. YAML is complex and JSON lacks comments, but TOML feels like it hits a sweet spot.

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Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.
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