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zamadatix • yesterday at 12:27 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Never thought I'd see hackers saying INI format looked ugly of all things. It's basic, sure, but that's a good thing for something meant to be easily editable by hand from any editor. Otherwise, it's just key value pairs in named sections, how ugly can it be about that?

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jjgreen • yesterday at 12:36 PM

key-value pairs where the = cannot be surrounded by spaces, so I have to write

  [Service]
  Type=oneshot
  WorkingDirectory={{ home }}/current/
  Environment=RAILS_ENV=production
  ExecStart=/bin/sh -lc "bin/db-backup --verbose"
which fills me with sadness
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ramon156 • yesterday at 1:06 PM

TOML would look a lot more quiet, but I'm not sure if TOML would be a good fit

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