@raichoo As you are coming from FreeBSD, have you considered UCL (https://wiki.freebsd.org/UniversalConfigurationLanguage)?
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blabber (blabber@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 13:29:12 CEST blabber -
blabber (blabber@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 13:37:03 CEST blabber @raichoo Understandable. I have mixed feelings towards UCL myself.
To answer your original question: I would always prefer static configuration files, as users that are non-techies might have to deal with these files.
If it is sensible to provide a lua interface, I would go for some kind of plugin mechanism.
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blabber (blabber@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 13:42:22 CEST blabber @raichoo In this case I would go for maximum flexibility.
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