# 🌽 Corn
A simple and pain-free configuration language.
[Corn](https://cornlang.dev) has been designed using inspiration from JSON and
Nix to produce a language that's easy and intuitive to write, good for config
files, and has a feature-set small enough you can learn it in minutes. It was
born out of the following frustrations:
- JSON is not a config language, despite how often people use it as one.
- TOML is good for flat structures but gets ugly quickly with deeper objects.
- YAML is far too complex and its whitespace rules make it error-prone.
- Nix is a full-sized language and not easy to integrate.
---
<div align="center">
## Documentation
[📖User guide](https://cornlang.dev/user-guide) |
[📝 Full specification](https://cornlang.dev/spec)
</div>
---
```corn
let {
$entry = "dist/index.js"
$author = { name = "John Smith" email = "mail@example.com" }
} in {
name = "example-package"
version = "1.0.0"
main = $entry
bin.filebrowser = $entry
private = false
author = $author
author.url = "https://example.com"
contributors = [ $author ]
scripts.build = "tsc"
scripts.run = "node dist"
dependencies = {
dotenv = "^8.2.0"
// put the rest of your deps here...
}
devDependencies.typescript = "^4.5"
config.port = 8080
config.hostname = null
}
```
---
Corn is available as libraries for Rust, Go, Lua, and JavaScript (via WASM).\
A CLI and web API are also available.
Editor plugins are available for JetBrains IDEs, VS Code and Neovim.