alt Hacker NewsAs a similar, yet more powerful data format I started using Nickel (https://nickel-lang.org). It has very sophisticated typing and transformation features. Highly recommended!
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casparvitch • last Monday at 1:02 AM
recutils is aimed at database rather than config use-cases
rec files are not configuration, they are just a very simple and basic way of representing tabular data, very similar to a CSV. But it uses lines to separate columns and records, making it much simpler to add and edit records by hand, differently from CSV