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This was me too - until yesterday, when I made a minor change to one of our YAML config files and everything broke. On investigation it turned out that all of o

This was me too - until yesterday, when I made a minor change to one of our YAML config files and everything broke. On investigation it turned out that all of our YAML files had longstanding errors but those errors happened to be valid syntax and also did not cause any bad side effects, so we had been getting away with it by pure luck until I made a change that happened to expose the problem. So now no longer a YAML fan...

dragonwriter 7y ago
That would make me not a fan of the particular parsers/validators I've been using, rather than not a fan of YAML. The big strike against YAML I see there is that it needs a good conformance test suite and implementations need to be tested against it. But that's not a problem with the format but a fairly easy to fix ecosystem problem.
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- Izkata 7y ago
  > of the particular parsers/validators But the syntax was valid, the parsers/validators would've been correct to accept it.