TOML Alternatives

TOML is described as '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 be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages' and is an app. There are six alternatives to TOML for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is JSON, which is free. Other great apps like TOML are YAML, XML, Protocol Buffers and MessagePack.

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TOML

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

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JSON
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JavaScript
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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999.
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YAML
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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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1. Support for MarkDownYAML supports MarkDown for document formatting.
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XML
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7 alternatives to XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable.
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1. Support for MarkDownXML supports MarkDown for document formatting.
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Protocol Buffers
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Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to...

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MessagePack
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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
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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 massive databases, while libraries are available across multiple languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby and...

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