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Nope nope nope. YAML is awful and needs to die. The more you look at it the worse it gets. The basic functionality is elegant (at least until you consider stuff
by tormeh 6y ago
Nope nope nope. YAML is awful and needs to die. The more you look at it the worse it gets. The basic functionality is elegant (at least until you consider stuff like The Norway Problem), but the advanced parts of YAML are batshit insane.
- dragonwriter 6y ago“The Norway Problem" is a YAML 1.1 problem, of which there are many. What advanced parts of YAML are you talking about that remain problems in YAML 1.2?
- medstrom 6y agoFrom the article: > The most tragic aspect of this bug, howevere, is that it is intended behavior according to the YAML 2.0 specification.
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe article is simply, factually wrong; there is no “YAML 2.0 specification” [0], and everything they point to is YAML 1.1, and addressed in YAML 1.2 (the most recent YAML spec, from 2009.) [0] https://yaml.org/ https://yaml.org/