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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1743099

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Some applications don't have enough config entries to warrant support for nested entries

Some applications need variable-length data, and some even variable-length lists

Some applications don't care about having fast read/write times or a small memory footprint and can do with more complex formats that require the use of third-party libraries

Some embedded applications (e.g. AVR) don't have access to a whole lot of libraries