About

God is a flexible, easy to read/write/implement data serialization format derived from the Nix programming language. It is structured around basic data structures which can be found (in some form or another) in roughly any programming language.

It can effectively represent any data that can be represented in JSON, all while being easier to read and write due to a number of design choices.

Why?

As someone who has found themself needing to manually write and programatically work with data serialization formats, I wanted a better way. I tried many formats: JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, XML, KDL, Lua tables, Java properties, and others. You name it, I tried it. Many of them had enough nagging issues to cause motivation in me to find a better format, which never arose.

"But JSON works fine"

Have you ever been in the position of writing JSON, rather than just having a library parse it? If you haven't; then yes that's a logical conclusion. Personally, I find myself in a position where I need to write data manually, and many of the popular formats make that experience have more friction than it should. For those that may need a data serialization format, but never (or rarely) have to deal directly with the data in its storage format, it may seems like nit-picking; however it becomes different when you find yourself manually writing in these formats.