On: Hjson, the Human JSON

[stormbeta]

JSON is an interchange format, but YAML is pretty obviously meant for configuration, given the huge emphasis on human readability and editing.

As for TOML, it's a good replacement for mostly-flat INI-style files but the syntax is really awkward for the kinds of places you'd normally use YAML, especially nesting lists/maps.

[bryanlarsen → stormbeta]

Top line on yaml.org:

What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.