# soml-lang/soml

> SOML is a human-friendly config format: bare keys, no commas or top-level braces, comments allowed, and a value's type determined by syntax rather than content. It positions itself as a replacement for JSON and YAML in files people write by hand.

- Magnitude: 3.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 165 total · +19 stars measured 2026-11-02, 20:42–23:05 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-09 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/soml-lang/soml · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/soml-lang/soml

## Useful for

- Write a service config with dates, durations, and comments without quotes or commas
- Compare SOML parser behavior using the language-neutral conformance suite
- Replace a YAML config where values like 'no' or '3.10' get wrongly retyped

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 20:42–23:05: 146 → 165 stars (+19). This is the change over that interval.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.9× that of the previous week and a half.
- The repository is 24 days old and already has 165 stars.
- Hacker News: “SOML – A Config Format for Humans” — 53 points, 4 h ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @millette (310 followers), @cpiprint (222 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 3
- Watchers: 3
- Average over the last week: 15 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5

## Stars per day, last 25 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-09 … 2026-11-02: 10, 1, 4, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 43, 17, 11, 3, 6, 7, 19

## Hacker News

- SOML – A Config Format for Humans — 53 points, 56 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341502
- SOML: A Config Format for Humans — 5 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266651

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.