Elton is a strictly defined subset of Lua. The syntax is simple.
It's easy for people to edit Elton data.
The official library and specification is available under the terms of the MIT license, same as Lua.
Elton data is always valid UTF-8. By requiring UTF-8 a lot of problems simply go away.
Use it for your application's config format. Unlike JSON, Elton supports comments.
Lua is easily sandboxed which makes Elton safe to use. The official Lua Elton library takes care of safety for you.
-- A simple blog entry using Elton.
{
date = "2014-03-14 13:32",
title = "An example Elton document",
tags = {"test", "example"},
post = [[
Example
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
]]
}