On: TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

[rfoo]

--flagfile gets me really far but to be fair it sucks when you need nested kv

[enriquto → rfoo]

just use longer keys (with an ad-hoc separator, if you want)

[rfoo → enriquto]

What about lists? Something like:

  --allowed-downtime-0-start=20230523170000Z
  --allowed-downtime-0-end=20230523170500Z
  --allowed-downtime-1-start=...

Or

  --allowed-downtime-start='20230523170000Z,...'

I can live with them, but neither looks clean :(

Genuine question, as I actually like the plain old flagfiles/Java-properties-ish style.

[enriquto → rfoo]

The output produced by gron looks quite clean to me. You just write your file as if it was a list of js variable assignments.

    allowed-downtime[0][0] = 20230523170000Z
    allowed-downtime[0][1] = 20230523170500Z
    allowed-downtime[1][0] = ...

or if you absolutely want the names, you can make a "list of dictionaries":

    allowed-downtime[0].start = ...