I still prefer ini files for configuration. Easier to grep and sed.
replyYou can get a bit more if you use TOML over INI... it's similar at a baseline, but still a bit more rich for advanced configuration than INI is.
replyThey work wonderfully until you need to do anything more advanced than a key-value store.
replyMy belief is that anything that requires more than that are hiding the fact that what they truly need is a DSL. Instead they force you to write AST (ansible, github actions, docker compose,…)
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