The Best 6 TOML Alternatives

  • YAML

    YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • JSON

    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is...

    Free Self-Hosted JavaScript

  • XML

    Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Messagepack

    MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Protocol Buffers

    Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler....

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Android BSD