Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I’m not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.
For simple stuff, INI is pretty good.
I must admit I’ve written stuff that uses a JSON config file, but I might finish implementing YAML instead. Any day now…
Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I’m not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.
This human would prefer YAML for that, especially if I had to generate/modify said config in Ansible/puppet/whatever.
You could use TOML. It’s pretty much an extension of INI