[abstrctn]

I hadn't heard of TOML before today, and it looks like TOML goes a long way towards an easy to understand markup.

But even something as minimal as TOML still relies on several programming concepts for its syntax: the use of the equals sign for assignment, that strings need to be quoted, using "#" to begin comments. They're very basic concepts, but still concepts that need to be taught in programming 101.

The place where syntax errors in a live interactive graphic is dangerous is when it's public and a copy editor goes in to fix a typo. Even if they aren't familiar with every concept in AML (like square brackets to denote arrays), when they're fixing that typo, the only line they're editing is:

key: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Which is about as error-proof as we could get it.