I agree with, and have felt the same pain as you here. But this isn't YAML's fault, IMO, it is that the templaters, like Helm, aren't safe, and don't escape the

I agree with, and have felt the same pain as you here. But this isn't YAML's fault, IMO, it is that the templaters, like Helm, aren't safe, and don't escape their outputs. If have a string, and I use that in the middle of a YAML template, I expect a string — I don't expect "300" to become (integer) 300; give me a function for that conversion. Any HTML templating system that behaved this way would be frowned upon due to the potential for XSS. There's little risk of XSS here, but it's still annoying to get the wrong results.