[mschwaig]

Human-readability was one of the aspects that I enjoyed about using CCL,the Categorical Configuration Language (https://chshersh.com/blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-config...), in one of my projects recently.

It saves you from escaping stuff inside of multiline-strings by using meaningful whitespace.

What I did not like about CCL so much that it leaves a bunch of stuff underspecified. You can make lists and comments with it, but YOU have to decide how.

[eska]

That whole post reads like a parody. Making fun of other config formats, only to go full blown category theory to explain one can merge config files.. Also weird to use key-value maps as basic type instead of lists, then having to make lists out of maps, rather than the other way around. And who wants to configure the comment symbol? Schema validation is also not in, but hey we can define data types (which are app specific anyway?)