YINI has seen quite a few updates across its ecosystem recently - not only in the format itself, but also in the parsers, CLI, testing, and developer tooling.

Here are some of the more notable changes.

YINI CLI: new get command

The YINI CLI now includes a get command for reading a single value directly from a YINI file.

For example:

yini get config.yini database.host

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could return:

localhost

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This can be useful in shell scripts, CI workflows, or whenever you only need one configuration value instead of processing the whole document yourself.

TypeScript parser: around 30% faster

The TypeScript/JavaScript parser has received a larger internal refactoring.

Parser results are now built during the parse-tree processing instead of in a separate step.

Local benchmarks on several larger workloads showed approximately 24-33% faster median parsing .

The parser's diagnostic handling has also been improved, making errors…