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The proliferation of yaml is rather unfortunate.
by abakus 8y ago
The proliferation of yaml is rather unfortunate.
- kstrauser 8y agoAll JSON is valid YAML, so you can format your YAML that way and be just fine.
- Karunamon 8y agoHow the.. I just tried this, and it works, but I don't understand why. I mean YAML is just another data serialization format and so can be trivially converted anyways, but I thought that YAML had completely different formatting rules than JSON.
- kstrauser 8y agoIn the spec (http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2759572 http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2759572) it says: > YAML can therefore be viewed as a natural superset of JSON, offering improved human readability and a more complete information model. This is also the case in practice; every JSON file is also a valid YAML file. This makes it easy to migrate from JSON to YAML if/when the additional features are required. I think that's why I absolutely love YAML: I was able to start using it by writing JSON, then replacing parts of my documents with their "native" equivalents as I got comfortable with it.