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i really like hashicorp hcl. more than json. (and yaml is TERRIBLE)

• andybak 6y ago
  YAML might be terrible for the reasons given elsewhere but I really want something YAML-like (maybe TOML, maybe something else) For me, readability is king both for myself and because I sometimes want non-developers to be able to hand-edit files. Any curly brace format is a non-starter. Too much clutter, too easy to create invalid files that aren't obviously invalid at a glance. Significant white space does have the advantage of meaning exactly what it appears to mean and being intuitively understandable to most people.