Adding dragon emoji as semicolons in node.js or the typescript compiler: https://blog.angularindepth.com/instead-of-semicolons-what-if-you-could-code-with-dragons-df5d0a4ef4ee
Nice post showing that working with programming language implementations need not be scary!
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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:
What software designs require clean slate 'revolution' implementations, rather than evolution?
I can think of: borrow checking in a PL (existing code is unsafe), microkernels (architecture is too different from monokernels), and full REPLs (can't add type redefinition later).
@friend It seems like people find Zig comptime easier to reason about, hence the interest in introducing it to other languages.
That seems worth something. I still prefer Lisp/Clojure style macros over safer Scheme/Rust macros. Lisp macro implementations are closer to typical code.