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General

• convfmt: converts between JSON any many other formats (incl. HOCON as of 0.18)

• jty-converter: converts between JSON/TOML/YAML

HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation)

• Introduction, with comparison to other formats

• Specification

• Examples

  • sponge's global.conf

  • Writing HOCON from Puppet's documentation

• Parsing into dataclasses

  • pyhocon + pydantic: https://gist.github.com/martin1keogh/2817e338fb06ad3573cffcfb8e713ac7

  • another pyhocon + pydantic: https://gist.github.com/GreyElaina/d851e9c9304085f7101d45725d378f68

• pyhocon: Provides CLI tool for conversion between formats

• Dataclasses for configuration management

  • dataconf: HOCON output by default

  • pytyped-hocon

• hoconvert: Rust-based HOCON converter

Others

• HConfig

• Dhall

• Dovecot config syntax

HCL

• HashiCorp configuration language

TOML

YAML

• crdoconnor/strictyaml: Type-safe parser and validator, subset of YAML 2.0

Hjson

• Why broot is switching from TOML to Hjson for its configuration files

ucl (Universal Configuration Language)

• Used by FreeBSD, very similar to nginx

• vstakhov/libucl

• Seems best, similar to HOCON, but no modern Python package?

  • Install python bindings from libucl git repo: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl/issues/202

nginx conf

• crossplane-ng / [[https://github.com/nginxinc/crossplane|crossplane] parses nginx conf in Python

KDL

• https://kdl.dev/