I made Confetti: a configuration language file format
Hello everyone, I created Confetti: a simple, typeless, and localization-friendly configuration language designed for human-editable configuration files. In my opinion, JSON works well for data interchange, but it's overused for configuration, it's not localization-friendly, and it's too syntactically noisy. INI is simple but lacks hierarchical structures and doesn't have a formal specification. Confetti is intended to bridge the gap. I aim to keep Confetti simple and minimalistic, while encouraging others to extend it. Think of it like Markdown for configuration files: there's a core…
I made Confetti: a configuration language file format launched on March 31, 2025 with 67 votes, #479 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Confetti is a configuration language designed for human-editable files. It aims to simplify configuration management by offering a middle ground between JSON's syntactic complexity and INI's structural limitations. The format is typeless and localization-friendly, following a minimalist philosophy similar to Markdown. Developers and teams seeking more readable configuration files without unnecessary syntax noise are its intended users. The core specification remains simple while allowing community extensions.
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From the sources
Confetti is intended for human-editable configuration files. It is minimalistic, untyped, and unopinionated. Schema conformance is validated by the user application. Confetti does not compete with JSON or XML, it competes with INI files.
Introducing Confetti Confetti is a configuration language that combines the readability of Unix configuration files with the flexibility of S-expressions. It is minimalistic, untyped, and unopinionated. Schema conformance is validated by the user application. Confetti does not compete with JSON or XML, it competes with INI. # This is a comment. probe-device eth0 eth1 user * { login anonymous password "${ENV:ANONPASS}" machine 167.89.14.1 proxy { try-ports 582 583 584 } } user "Joe Williams" { login joe machine 167.89.14.1 } Implementations # Confetti is available for: Create your own implementation of Confetti by reviewing the specification and testing it against the official conformance…from confetti.hgs3.me
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello everyone, I created Confetti: a simple, typeless, and localization-friendly configuration language designed for human-editable configuration files. In my opinion, JSON works well for data interchange, but it's overused for configuration, it's not localization-friendly, and it's too syntactically noisy. INI is…
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