[lambdaone]

What's needed is something that is simple for humans to read and write, has a stable definition, and a clear and unambiguous syntax and mapping to data objects.

None of the systems I've seen achieve all those goals at once.

YAML, while at first sight a good idea, is irredeemably broken and should be deprecated for further use.

JSONC (https://jsonc.org/) is backwards-compatible with JSON, and a good target for long-term future migration.

.INI format works well as a structured subject-predicate-object tuple store for simple use cases.

We're probably going to have to live with that indifinitely, until someone comes up with a proposal that is better.

[gu009]

Tailscale also have HuJSON: https://github.com/tailscale/hujson