maple

Literally just a key-value (aka map) based config language. That's it.

Yes, there are loads more of these types of config languages, but I wanted to make my own because the other options are overkill for my projects.

What It Looks Like

maple is inspired by TOML and can be thought of almost* as a subset of it. The major differences being:

• maple does not use [these.things] for maps
• maple uses // for comments instead of #

TL;DR: this:

key = value;
// allowed values:
// strings have to use single-quotes
my_string = 'Some string'
my_int = 1273 // you can also use underscores to separate big numbers (i.e, 1_000_000 == 1000000)
my_float = 12.34
my_bool = false
my_map = {
    my_name = 'Emma'
    more_values = 1273
}
my_array = [
    1,
    'uno',
    3,
    'cuatro'
]

What, did you think it was going to be a complex monstrosity?

For a more comprehensive example, see example.maple .

maplecli/

You may notice the maplecli folder. It contains a CLI tool to parse and read Maple files. For the most part it is completely useless to most, but I use it to test erroneous Maple files.

It can also be used in shell scripts to read Maple files for configuration, if you want to do that for whatever reason.

License

maple is dual-licensed under MIT and the Unlicense. Pick whichever you prefer :P