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YAML is clearly made for humans. It's just that it's badly made for humans, in that it tries to be too helpful, leading to the various footguns scattered aroun
by samatman 6y ago
YAML is clearly made for humans.
It's just that it's badly made for humans, in that it tries to be too helpful, leading to the various footguns scattered around the format.
TOML can be a bit verbose, especially if you have a case where your keys are more like sentences than they are like symbols. But there are no surprises, and it's quite pleasant to write by hand. I agree that it should be the first choice.
- nanis 6y ago> YAML is clearly made for humans. A format that allows references to other sections is not a configuration language that is usable by humans. I understand the people who created it thought it would be usable by humans, but clearly it is too complicated for anyone to be able to understand a YAML file that is bigger than a dozen or so lines.