Hey everyone! 👋
A quick update on YINI — a minimal, human-readable configuration format inspired by INI, JSON, and Python — designed to be easy to read, clean to write, and consistent to parse.
What’s new in Beta 6?
#is now strictly a comment only when followed by a space/tab — so#FF0033(hex color) still works ✅- Section headers now use Markdown-style nesting via
^,^^,^^^instead of symbols like[section.sub]— super clean and very readable. - Support for multiple comment styles:
//,#,;,--, and even/* block comments */ - Fully supports quoted string types (
raw,classic,hyper,triple-quoted) - Numbers in binary, octal, decimal, hex, and dozenal (base-12) — all with validation
- Formal grammar in ANTLR4 for building parsers in your favorite language
🧪 Try it out:
# A YINI config format document ^ server ^^ connection host = 'localhost' port = 8080 // Dev port ^^ auth enabled = true ^^^ credentials username = 'admin' password = 'secret' // Change me! ; This config stays pretty clean and easy to read. 👉 If you’re into config formats, human-first syntax, or building tools around structured files — your feedback would be awesome.
🔗 Spec, examples, and grammar here: https://github.com/YINI-lang/YINI-spec
Thanks for reading, cheers!
– M. Seppänen
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