MD vs TOML
Een uitgebreide vergelijking van Markdown en TOML Config — bestandsgrootte, kwaliteit, compatibiliteit en welk formaat het beste past bij jouw workflow.
Markdown
Documents & TextMarkdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain text formatting syntax. It is widely used in software development, technical documentation, and content management systems.
Over MD-bestandenTOML Config
Documents & TextTOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language) is a configuration file format designed to be easy to read due to its clear semantics. It is the default configuration format for Rust (Cargo.toml), Python packaging (pyproject.toml), and many modern CLI tools.
Over TOML-bestandenVergelijking van sterke punten
MD Sterke punten
- Readable as plain text even before rendering — fits in version control beautifully.
- Dead-simple: 90% of needs covered in 10 minutes of learning.
- Converts trivially to HTML, PDF, EPUB, and DOCX via Pandoc.
- Every modern IDE, note-taking app, and developer tool renders it natively.
- Lightweight — a typical Markdown file is kilobytes, not megabytes.
TOML Sterke punten
- Unambiguous parsing — every TOML 1.0 parser produces the same output.
- Native date/time types (unlike JSON).
- Comments, multi-line strings, nested tables.
- Explicit types with no coercion gotchas.
- Chosen by Rust (Cargo), Python (pyproject), Hugo, Zola.
Beperkingen
MD Beperkingen
- No formal authoritative spec — CommonMark, GFM, and MultiMarkdown differ on edge cases.
- Tables and complex layouts are clunky; footnotes and math require extensions.
- Links to images stay external — no embedded media unless you base64-inline.
- Styling is limited to what HTML allows — custom branding requires CSS outside Markdown.
TOML Beperkingen
- Less flexible than YAML for deeply nested config.
- Table arrays with many rows become visually busy.
- Smaller ecosystem than YAML or JSON.
- Not ubiquitous in DevOps — tooling leans YAML.
Technische specificaties
| Specificatie | MD | TOML |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/markdown | application/toml |
| Extensions | .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd | — |
| Standard | CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) | TOML 1.0.0 (2021) |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (conventional) | UTF-8 (required) |
| Companion spec | RFC 7763 (2016) | — |
| Extension | — | .toml |
| Types | — | string, integer, float, boolean, datetime, array, table |
Typische bestandsgroottes
MD
- README 1-15 KB
- Blog post 2-30 KB
- Full technical manual 50 KB - 2 MB
TOML
- Rust Cargo.toml 500 B - 5 KB
- Python pyproject.toml 1-10 KB
- Hugo site config 2-20 KB
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