On: Why do so many tools have JSON config files?

[bonestamp2]

For our internal tooling we use something similar to a bash profile config file with name/value pairs separated by linebreaks. So, our configs look something like:

env=staging

db=0.0.0.0

#descriptive comment

etc=true

[jetbalsa → bonestamp2]

ini file format is pretty much this

[section_name]

key=value

key=value