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> How YAML got so popular is a mystery to me. It's good at being human-readable. It's basically json with indents and comments. What other configuration format
by lazyant 6y ago
> How YAML got so popular is a mystery to me.
It's good at being human-readable. It's basically json with indents and comments. What other configuration format is out there that allows for tree structure and it's easier on humans? (not XML or json).
- randallsquared 6y agoI'd say YAML's good at seeming human-readable... JSON has some surprises and a lot of limitations, but is so much simpler than YAML that it seems worth putting up with them.
- raghava 6y ago> good at being human-readable If we consider high composability, non-ambiguity, clarity, expressability (even a word?) as aspects of "human readability" - YAML doesn't go very far in the scale across many of these. A language, with slightly more appealing (yet non-limiting for programmablity) declarative constructs seem very helpful for needs like this. It would be great to see any spider-web-graph of all these solutions across those aspects and thus help someone to take a wiser decision.