There's no white Knight here, they all suck in some way. Personally I've had decent success with yaml as simple configuration, but I would never use it as an in

There's no white Knight here, they all suck in some way. Personally I've had decent success with yaml as simple configuration, but I would never use it as an interchange format. If you know it's caveats and you're targeting one language so you can become familiar with the parser it's serviceable.