23 points microflash 1 hour ago 10 comments

paulddraper 55 minutes ago | parent

> Top-level arrays. A TOML file is always a table, so a list of records needs a wrapper key.

I'm curious for example configs that are top-level lists?

esafak 48 minutes ago | parent

Can you add README sections for the schema and supported types?

jll29 48 minutes ago | parent

Looks like Windows *.ini format except ":" instead of "="...

CodesInChaos 38 minutes ago | parent

Not really. INI has a fixed structure (section>key>value) and its values are untyped.

arionmiles 45 minutes ago | parent

See also: HUML [1]

1: https://huml.io/

drvd 42 minutes ago | parent

So a stripped down variant of cue? Why not use cue directly?

brianm 31 minutes ago | parent

Cue only really exists in go, and has a dependency chain to make maven weep.

I think cue is better thought of as a language you use to generate JSON (or yaml, or, let's be honest, k8s flavored yaml) configs rather than a config language you use in your app.

CodesInChaos 41 minutes ago | parent

What I'm missing:

1. The readme doesn't make it clear what its "float" type is. A double, a decimal, implementation defined. I'm generally not a fan of restricting numbers to what a double can represent, like toml does.

2. It doesn't have a good way to model key-value pair like types such as tagged unions, polymorphic types, or function invocations. Simply allowing a key-value pair as a value (right associative) where the key is a string matching the keys of an object would fix this. Alternatively a function call syntax would fix this, which would also enable tuples as a concept distinct from arrays.

lightandlight 22 minutes ago | parent

Ironically the project seems LLM-generated.

I don't want to read Claude's interpretation of why your project matters. I want you to tell me directly.

james_marks 13 minutes ago | parent

From the title, I thought this was a specification for configuring humans. I don't quite know what that means, and I'm disappointed still not to know.