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		awestroke on Sept 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-c... Yaml coerces values (the string "on" is coerced to bool true for example), with ini you do any conversion from strings yourself

rewmie on Sept 26, 2023 [–]

> with ini you do any conversion from strings yourself

INI isn't specified, thus you cannot claim that the INI format does something a certain way.

The best shot at a specified INI file format might be TOML, and even that format is subjected to the same type of criticism.

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