I agree. As long as you're using a strict parser, I've found YAML to be much nicer for configuration than JSON. I use Python's ruamel.yaml library, and have nev

I agree. As long as you're using a strict parser, I've found YAML to be much nicer for configuration than JSON. I use Python's ruamel.yaml library, and have never had any weird type problems. Once the nesting gets too deep, it can be a pain. but that's the same for JSON. I have found myself using TOML more and more for configuration, though. It helps a lot with keeping things flat and easy to read. I'll still prefer YAML over JSON for human-writable files, but I'm starting to prefer TOML over YAML.