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Sep 22, 2024 at 01:37
JSON is too small (no comments) and YAML is too big (many string syntaxes, relatively few implementations). TOML is in the sweet spot for complexity, but I agree this syntax is by far the most confusing part. TOML 1.1 improves it at least:
Proposal: Allow newlines and trailing commas in inline tables · Issue #516 · toml-lang/toml
Proposal: Allow newlines and trailing commas in inline tables · Issue #516 · toml-lang/toml
Overall I really like toml and its syntax feels very obvious to me for the most part. The only thing that doesn't is the expclicit cripling of inline tables, i.e. inline tables cannot have newlines...

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