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My opinion on Pkl (Apple's new configuration format)

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Tom Delalande

Apple recently released a new configuration format called Pkl (Pickle). I migrated some configuration over from TOML and so far I really enjoy it. It works really well with Kotlin and seems like a great replacement for Json and YAML.

0:00 What is Pkl
0:24 Why I'm interested
1:10 Use case
1:38 Template example
2:21 Configuration example
2:45 What I preferred about TOML
3:13 Website example
3:28 Parsing in Kotlin
3:47 What I don't like (additional complexity)
4:16 Final thoughts

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