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Inventing new configuration languages to get away from yaml is a blisteringly terrible plan. Yaml doesnt spark joy for me, but it's ok & there's lots of good t
by rektide 4y ago
Inventing new configuration languages to get away from yaml is a blisteringly terrible plan.
Yaml doesnt spark joy for me, but it's ok & there's lots of good tools & libraries to support it. Json & toml are basically the only other modestly well supported options out there.
This looks like a Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) variant. At least just use YANG. Even though it's vastly less supported.
For real, the amount of griping about YAML is unbelievable. It's not great but so what. It does the job. What people really are griping about usually is how much configuration/state is required. Where the spaces go, whether there's parenthesis or not is so far down the list of important factors. Metric miles behind "are there good tools & libraries?," for one.
- laumars 4y agoYou can use parenthesis with YAML though. It’s just not a common idiom.