XML is largely human-unreadable, ludicrously verbose, and has weird character escape requirements. Not a trifecta I want from my config files. I don't think any

XML is largely human-unreadable, ludicrously verbose, and has weird character escape requirements. Not a trifecta I want from my config files. I don't think anyone who's ever found themselves tampering with a complex XML file in vim ever wanted to repeat the experience.