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Yaml is the new xml

• IshKebab 6y ago
  I dunno, XML may have been verbose and overused but at least it had a fairly solid design. YAML is terrible.
  • Spivak 6y ago
    YAML “won” for some definition because it’s really natural to write. Mix colons and brackets, multiline strings that aren’t weird, type annotations when desired, add your own types, basic but functional-ish DRY support that’s transparent to the reader, dict merging. Throw in some value templating a la Ansible and you have a really solid language to express annoying data shapes.
• zo1 6y ago
  I always saw it as "JSON was the new XML". And JSON Schema was the new XSD. And then they went ahead and also re-invented SOAP using "Swagger" / OpenAPI. Luckily, JSON/YAML is mostly interchangeable these days as it's just a nested hierarchy of a few basic types. Heck, I mostly treat XML the same way as well.
  • ses1984 6y ago
    Did you know that json is actually valid yaml?