Simplicity and minimalism is at the heart of Confetti. Some formats, like YAML, are very complicated (look at the size of its specification!) whereas Confetti’s spec is simple and minimal, and it can be learned in minutes.
Confetti is typeless by design and its syntax is composable. Confetti provides the atoms necessary to create everything from simple configuration, to textual file formats, to lightweight scripting. Check out the various examples for inspiration.
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Unopinionated: Confetti lets you define custom keywords, like
onandoff, and tristates, likeyes,no, andmaybe. This is in contrast to formats, like TOML, which mandate the keywordstrueandfalse. -
Localization Friendly: Confetti lets you write configuration files in your native language. This is in contrast to formats, like JSON, which requires the English words
null,true, andfalse, and Western digits0through9. -
Extensions Encouraged: Much like how Markdown has different flavors, you are encouraged to create unique flavors of Confetti. The specification defines the common language and its annex includes extensions that are compatible with the grammar.
Feature Comparison#
Here’s how Confetti compares to popular formats:
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Specification |
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Typeless |
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Localization Friendly |
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Unicode Literals |
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Multiline Literals |
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Comments |
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Hierarchical Structures |
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1 INI has no specification and therefore support for internalization and Unicode are implementation dependent.
2 JSON and TOML mandate the English words true and false and Western digits 0 through 9.