FluxStone is a simple, and human readable and writable configuration file and data exchange format.
Its designed as a format for people who want a format to store or exhange data between programs and files without sacrificing the ability for normal humans to read or write it in plain text.
FluxStone includes:
- An EBNF definition of FluxStone's grammar
Coming soon:
- A Lua implementation of a FluxStone parser
The format is meant to be simple, human readable/writable, and allow the language-independent expression of data.
Learn more about FluxStone's format.
FluxStone came about as a result of issues with JSON readability/writability. While JSON is quite good for this, its not perfect and is much better read and written by programs than humans who are prone to making many very small mistakes with it. FluxStone is very similar operationally to JSON as a plain text data exchange format, but is more lenient and uses features to make the text more readable for humans including key naming style, whitespace line endings, and comments.
Contribution is welcome. Please make a pull request.
Issues are tracked through the GitHub issue tracker.
FluxStone is free software licensed under the zlib license. See LICENSE for details.