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TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
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Re: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
#102The biggest concern with JSON seems to be the lack of comments. So what voodoo is Sublime Text 2 performing? Why can't we just use that?
{
// Sets the colors used within the text area
"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme",
// Note that the font_face and font_size are overriden in the platform
// specific settings file, for example, "Preferences (Linux).sublime-settings".
// Because of this, setting them here will have no effect: you must set them
// in your User File Preferences.
"font_face": "",
"font_size": 12,
// Valid options are "no_bold", "no_italic", "no_antialias", "gray_antialias",
// "subpixel_antialias", "no_round" (OS X only) and "directwrite" (Windows only)
"font_options": [],
// Characters that are considered to separate words
"word_separators": "./\\()\"'-:,.;~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",
// Set to false to prevent line numbers being drawn in the gutter
"line_numbers": true
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#103It isn't a markup language. I'd like to correct this mistake that was started by YAML. :/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language (Using the bacronym "YAML Ain't Markup Language" only helped it grow, making more people confused as to what a Markup Language is.) I like it, though. More grepable than JSON or YAML, with the way it handles nested keys using dot notation.
This has been fixed. [1]
[1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml/commit/aa4ac1d6df1031ebe871c...
Re: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
#104If this had be done by any Tom no one would have upvoted
Re: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Despite that, the thread easily illustrates the difficulty of writing valid JSON by hand.
The difficulty level is hardly extreme. It is not an unreasonable challenge to learn that writing an array of elements requires opening and closing brackets.
The issue here might be that JSON has become widely used for two things:
Data marshalling/transfer
Config formats
I imagine this is intended as a saner version of YAML for configs.
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#106About the use of mark up language as config file. I see that in most Python apps, the config file is just another Python script and not using another markup language. This way makes sence in a dynamic language and it feels natural. I understand it is a habit to use yaml in Ruby apps for config. Is it not possible to just use Ruby script as config file since the script can be loaded dynamically? What are the pros and…
Using script files to store config is convenient, but is it true that in some circumstances it could give malicious parties a chance to inject arbitrary executed code into your environment, in ways that parsing a pure data file could not.
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#107Given Jekyll's enormous backlog of issues and pull requests[0], can we expect this to be maintained or supported any bit beyond the late night drunken brain fart that this is? [0] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
Parker Moore and I (along with many contributors) have been spending quite a bit of time on Jekyll recently. Over the last 30 days we've merged 17 pull requests and closed 62 issues. We're ramping up for a 1.0 release and there's a brand new website in the works. You can check it all out on the master branch.
Tens (or possibly hundreds) of thousands of people use Jekyll now. It's interesting to note that Jekyll started out as a "brain fart" as well. Just one amongst hundreds of blog engines. I wrote it because I was dissatisfied with everything on the market, and I thought I could do something different and better, to serve my own needs. I open sourced it, because I thought others might get a kick out of it.
I'd wager that most of the great things we use today started as nearly ephemeral emanations from someone's mind, often late at night, or helped along by a snifter of brandy. The funny thing is, if you never try out your crazy ideas, you'll never know which ones might have changed the world.
Re: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
#108Given Jekyll's enormous backlog of issues and pull requests[0], can we expect this to be maintained or supported any bit beyond the late night drunken brain fart that this is? [0] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
Parker Moore and I (along with many contributors) have been spending quite a bit of time on Jekyll recently. Over the last 30 days we've merged 17 pull requests and closed 62 issues. We're ramping up for a 1.0 release and there's a brand new website in the works. You can check it all out on the master branch. Tens (or possibly hundreds) of thousands of people use Jekyll now. It's interesting to note that Jekyll start…
Tom, I've been waiting two years on a pull-request to the official gem which adds the ability to view open/closed issues in private repositories.
https://github.com/defunkt/github-gem/pull/59
The pull has 19 people asking for integration and has some stellar comments:
"seriously? year long pull request with two lines of changes?"
"I normally would think that the github gem features for paying users would get a lot of attention from the folks at github..."
I even tried getting it pulled via pre/postsales emails to enterprise@github.com (I'm a enterprise customer) which was met with a "yeah, i'll tap him on the shoulder to integrate - year later nothing.
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#109Working node.js version: https://github.com/aaronblohowiak/toml I just need to auth and push it to npm.
Nice work! It's too bad that this guy squatted on the `toml` package name without any implementation: https://github.com/BinaryMuse/toml-node
Re: TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
#110It isn't a markup language. I'd like to correct this mistake that was started by YAML. :/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language (Using the bacronym "YAML Ain't Markup Language" only helped it grow, making more people confused as to what a Markup Language is.) I like it, though. More grepable than JSON or YAML, with the way it handles nested keys using dot notation.
This has been fixed. [1] [1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml/commit/aa4ac1d6df1031ebe871c...
Like hell it has. People know what ML means at the end of a file format.