MAML: A Minimal Configuration Language Alternative to JSON
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Summary
MAML (Minimal Abstract Markup Language) is a new configuration language designed as an alternative to JSON. It maintains JSON's simplicity while adding essential features for better configuration management, including comments, multiline strings, optional commas, and optional key quotes. The article presents MAML as a solution to JSON's limitations as a configuration language, showing examples of its syntax and structure.
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· 3 pulledJSON is the most popular data-interchange format. But it isn't a very good configuration language.
MAML keeps JSON's simplicity and adds only the needed bits for a good configuration language.
Comments, Multiline strings, Optional commas, Optional key quotes
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