I used to like Python, but the whitespace stuff irritates me more and more. Sure, it's easy to read, but having those braces also makes code easier to read. Ma

I used to like Python, but the whitespace stuff irritates me more and more. Sure, it's easy to read, but having those braces also makes code easier to read. Maybe not opening braces, they're sorta redundant, but closing braces allow me to "pop stack" when I read them. Yaml combines the worst of whitespace with the use of whitespace without keywords, which makes things even harder. JSON is ok, particularly if your editor auto-quotes things, I wish it had comments, but having something that strips comments is a single sed pre-processing line. Neither are great for human generation or consumption, but at least JSON is only trying to be a serialize/deserialize syntax and doesn't claim to be more. YAML truly lives up to the "YA" part. It's trying to be the COBOL of configuration, able to be read and written by anyone. But no one needs that.