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Yaml is nice, its a shame MS Word does not support it (with syntax checking of course) or its adoption would be even greater. It just looks nice and non coders
by teekert 4y ago
Yaml is nice, its a shame MS Word does not support it (with syntax checking of course) or its adoption would be even greater. It just looks nice and non coders easily get the hang of it.
- js8 4y agoYou're the 2nd person in the reply who worries about non-coders. Honest question - what is the example use case here? Which configuration files in YAML are currently being handled by people who don't know any coding, and would be impeded by curly braces (and anything like JSON or XML)? I think this is only an imagined problem. Also, I have a met a non-programmer lady from HR, who was able to download a VB script into Outlook and adapt it to her needs (which was some kind of automation). Richard Stallman made a similar observation with Emacs configuration. I think you quite underestimate what non-programmers can do.