When I first saw json, compared to XML, it was so simple. As a fairly new programmer I could say to myself “hey I can write a parser and dumper for this quite e

When I first saw json, compared to XML, it was so simple. As a fairly new programmer I could say to myself “hey I can write a parser and dumper for this quite easily”. When I first saw YAML, it was nice but it felt a bit too complicated. All I really want is Indented JSON. New lines instead of commas. That’s it. Json is fast to parse. See simdjson doing it at > 2.5GB/s. One can’t do this with YAML where no could mean many things. And god I hate k8s for their bajillion yaml configs. Thank god for jsonnet that can dump to yaml. Jsonnet is truly nice and makes working with json like configs a pleasure.