I tried JSON. It worked. But I hate having to create the struct of the exact fields and types I might be setting. To me that was a pain. I noticed it was the method used by all the configuration options I could find. Maybe my background in dynamic languages makes me blind to the benefits of such verboseness. I made a new simple config file format, and a more dynamic-ish lib for reading it out.
https://github.com/chrisftw/ezconf
I am pretty new to the Go world, so it might not be the Go way. But it works, it is pretty quick, and super simple to use.
Pros
Cons
- No Arrays or Map types
- Very flat file format
- Non-standard conf files
- Does have a little convention built-in, which I now if frowned upon in general in Go community. (Looks for config file in the config directory)
