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  • YAML

    YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

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  • TOML

    TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should...

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  • Apache Thrift

    An interface definition language and communication protocol for creating cross-language services.

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  • MessagePack

    MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead.

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  • Eno

    The eno notation language is a plain-text data format designed for file-based content. The language itself is very simple but expressive enough to be able to handle...

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