📃 Synx

The human-first config language.
A hybrid of TOML and JSON designed to be clean, intuitive, and painless to write. No made-up syntax, everything is from other languages you already know.

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Key Features

• Zero Key Quotes: Bare keys for human readability. No "key": "value" noise
• No [[Table]] Complexity: Objects and lists of objects use clean, intuitive {} syntax you already know!
• Explicit null Support: Native null values... unlike TOML
• Explicit Number Types: Support for Ints, Doubles, Floats, and Longs
• Flexible Lists: Native support for empty lists, homogeneous (single-type) lists, and heterogeneous (mixed-type) lists.
• Comments: Simple // comments like every other sane language uses

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Example

Test = "testing testing"
Double = 5.4
Int = 727
Long = 9223372036854775807l
Float = 6.7f
Booleaning = true
EmptyList = []
Homogeneous = ["im", "so", "very", "gay"]
Heterogeneous = [6.7f, { Yeah = "very strong type yep.." }, 727, ["When would you even use this", false], null]
Object = {
Objecting = true
Alpha = {
NullableMuch = null
}
Bravo = {
ObjectInObject = {
Woah = "yes"
}
}
}

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Quick Comparison

Feature	JSON	TOML	Synx
Bare Keys	❌	✅	✅
Explicit null	✅	❌	✅
Simple Object Nesting	❌ (Verbose)	❌ ([[headers]])	✅ ({})
Proper Numeric Types	❌	❌	✅
Comments	❌	✅ (#)	✅ (//)

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Why I wrote this?

I got pissed off at TOML for the stupid [[ObjectList]] syntax for lists and for not having null and JSON for having to constantly put quotes everywhere.

Let’s not even mention the other configuration/markup languages... YAML?? XML????????

PS: I only found out hocon exists after I wrote the whole thing lmao