TOML

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TOML, aka Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language, is an open source data notation created in 2013 by Tom Preston-Werner.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/toml-lang/toml

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Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

TOML website
TOML is developed on GitHub and has 17,151 stars
TOML docs
There are at least 8 TOML repos on GitHub
file extensions for TOML include toml, Pipfile and poetry.lock
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for TOML
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for TOML
toml.io was registered in 2015

Example from Riju:

output = "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

Hello = "World"

Example from Linguist:

# This file is autogenerated, do not edit; changes may be undone by the next 'dep ensure'.


[[projects]]
  branch = "master"
  name = "golang.org/x/net"
  packages = ["context"]
  revision = "2491c5de3490fced2f6cff376127c667efeed857"

[[projects]]
  branch = "v2"
  name = "gopkg.in/tomb.v2"
  packages = ["."]
  revision = "d5d1b5820637886def9eef33e03a27a9f166942c"

[solve-meta]
  analyzer-name = "dep"
  analyzer-version = 1
  inputs-digest = "841a246fc6ac2a2ccb2ae3907a0ff3432f13e3fc44bb3c09388b0c931ef7d641"
  solver-name = "gps-cdcl"
  solver-version = 1

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		# \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:T\| )\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(?:Z\|[-+]\d{2}:\d{2})
Floats	✓		# (\d+\.\d\|\d\.\d+)([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?j?
Comments	✓		# A comment
Line Comments	✓	#	# A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

TOML - Data notation

Language features