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You are correct! The thinking behind this is that for the majority of file-based configuration and content usecases the expected types are fixed and known beforehand already - ergo…

tl;dr: Another alternative to YAML (among many great others), this one designed and developed by me: https://eno-lang.org/ I've been doing a lot of research and development on lang…

Very cool! If it succeeds and you'd like to publish any part of it at some point, I'll gladly pick it up for a collection of case studies on eno-lang.org, just let me know then. Me…

Awesome, very happy to see this. Now I'm curious - are you putting this to use somewhere already? Or is it for the time being "just" an experiment for the joy of implementing in it…

The design principle for types in eno is that the language itself has no notion of types, there are only plain textual representations. Meaning, types are never inferred from a doc…

The eno notation language[1] now also has an official PHP library: https://eno-lang.org/php/ It features the same API and featureset as the JavaScript / Python / Ruby libraries, an…

On npm that's in fact already covered, scrutinize the list https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=eno :)

That road (C or Rust parsing core through bindings) will likely be taken, but for the initial development and jump-starting the ecosystem it was important for me to start with impl…

Thanks for that feedback! I'll see what I can do to communicate the API type concept better, I'm generally struggling to pack all the bandwidth of things into the little available …

Associated fifties right away too, although not that colorful :)

Thanks for the encouragement! I like the philosophy of friends! (even though I too don't need quite the power of it (yet). ;))

I appreciate the input :) but the thing is that the typing concept in eno as it is now is essentially what makes eno eno. Every application that uses eno decides for itself what ty…

Well spotted, good question! It's also been asked in another thread on HN, I'm quoting myself here: "eno has neither indentation nor closing tags of any sort, that means if you use…

Yes through sections ! See https://eno-lang.org/introduction/ . You can nest as deeply as you want and multiple sections on the same level automatically turn into a list of section…

ruamel.yaml in python does that to a certain degree from what I've read, you might want to check it out if yaml is ok for your usecase! ( https://yaml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) I…

Sure! Cultural research = notoriously underfunded, so although they have and rely on a relational database that holds their data (previously Postgres) the cost and effort associate…

Hey, first off thanks! :) 1a) because faster was only one aspect, it also needed to be easier, even more pressingly that in fact. 1b) see answer by other poster (thanks!) 2) Not wh…

Regarding types check out https://eno-lang.org/javascript/#loaders - basically eno allows arbitrary types on the language level and provides loaders for all primitive types and cur…

One of the design conderations was and is that the format is very strict (and that way predictable), but at the same time as helpful as possible in identifying, communicating and r…

From what I saw, I think for at least a few parsers this might be the case because they are built on generated parser code, and it's just easy to run into unfavorable bits and piec…

Conveying what types to enter is not an eno-specific problem, as a user without schema or code access you don't know which types a blank YAML/TOML file expects either! Asides the a…

You're right, not yet ! Jump-starting the whole ecosystem was a major time investment for me but now that there is public exposure providing a formal spec has a higher priority bec…

Syntax vs Semantics is distinguished by ParseError vs ValidationError in the eno libraries - I'll keep the importance of distinguishing them in mind for the schema development too …

1) Yes! (You can directly dump it to a language-native structure with the raw() method too, this is not 1:1 YAML/TOML style generic deserialization though as there are no fixed typ…