@thor I generally use YAML unless I need something without requiring additional libraries (most runtimes support env vars)...
Tho in the cases I use it, it doesn't shit around with the machine's env vars.
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@finlaydag33k @thor i think the TCL approach described by antirez in "Tcl the Misunderstood" would be nice to have in other languages, but they usually aren't flexible enough for this :)
especially for scripting languages it's kind of weird that just using the language for configuration isn't more popular.
@finlaydag33k i only started using it a few years ago. i think it's really nice for its intended purpose, glue between things and to be embedded into larger programs. it's a bit unusual in its concepts though :)
they have solved many problems other languages still have. the tk toolkit is rather decent (it doesn't look like motif anymore), one can package an application with sdx into a standalone binary, the module system isn't madness like in python or ruby. it's decently optimized. there are manpages for most tcl/tk and tcllib (a kind of extended standard library) commands.
one drawback is that the community documentation is a bit cluttered. there is wiki.tcl-lang.org where much information is available. https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html is a good book, and there is some more content available at that domain. in the end it's still in a thousand locations, so one has to search around a bit for stuff.
i can only recommend to try tcl, if only for the interesting way of how things are done there. everything is a string ;)
@bonifartius I'll definitely have a look at it :)
@bonifartius I literally never heard of TCL until now :|