I agree with “should not go in ~/Library/Application Support”, but why would anybody put them there? The Mac way is ~/Library/Preferences, or, system-wide /Library/Preferences, and the use of NSDefaults.
“This directory contains app-specific preference files. You should not create files in this directory yourself. Instead, use the NSUserDefaults class or CFPreferences API to get and set preference values for your app.
In iOS, the contents of this directory are backed up by iTunes and iCloud.”
If a tool doesn’t want to use NSDefaults, using ~/.config is way preferable over polluting the user’s home directory, as many tools do.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi...:
“This directory contains app-specific preference files. You should not create files in this directory yourself. Instead, use the NSUserDefaults class or CFPreferences API to get and set preference values for your app. In iOS, the contents of this directory are backed up by iTunes and iCloud.”
If a tool doesn’t want to use NSDefaults, using ~/.config is way preferable over polluting the user’s home directory, as many tools do.