toml-lang/toml resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official repository for the TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) specification, a minimal, human-readable configuration file format that maps unambiguously to a hash table. It hosts the in-development spec, a language-agnostic test suite, and a wiki cataloging implementations, validators, and tooling across many languages.

Use cases

• define a standard config file format for my application
• find a TOML parser or encoder for my language
• validate TOML files against the spec
• compare TOML with YAML, JSON, and INI for configuration
• test a TOML decoder against the official test suite
• learn TOML syntax and semantics

When to choose

• you need a human-friendly config format with comments and clear semantics
• you want a format that maps cleanly to hash tables and parses easily in many languages
• you need a standardized, well-specified alternative to INI or YAML for configuration

When to avoid

• you need to serialize arbitrary data structures or stream data between processes
• you need top-level arrays or floats in your data files
• you want a data-interchange format like JSON for machine-to-machine communication

Facets

learning-resource · maturity stable

serialization configuration-management parser developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages files documentation cross-platform toml config-file-format specification data-format human-readable

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