zmerald

An opinionated configuration language ridden with flaws based on RON

motivation

As I started to work on some of my other projects such as benten and tema I used yaml for configuration and such, but it did not provide the flexibility I was looking for. I would like to eventually work on my own wayland compositor too and thought a good configuration language is essential. This all led to the birth of zmerald, a configuration language which allows various constructions to keep the config readable and easily maintainable. Details in the grammar.md.

why the name zmerald ?

Thought emerald sounded cool, but it sounds even cooler in Maltese.

todo

• include keyword;
• variables;
• allow comment on last line of file;
• rather than throwing an error on duplicate fields, add to sequence (if sequence) or override;
• remove need of semicolon ; in constructions such as variables and cavetta;
• remove need of specifying field names in structs and base it on order of "arguments" (values);
• demonyms for cavetta construction, as in key <id> value, key is a demonym for hashmap keys. use field attributes for this ?