> A YAML file can exhibit identical information with fewer characters and that makes the files easier to read and maintain - especially if they are information

> A YAML file can exhibit identical information with fewer characters and that makes the files easier to read and maintain - especially if they are information dense. I don't think this is a particularly good yardstick. Code without comments is shorter than code with comments, but I wouldn't call comment-less code easier to read; the more information dense, the worse, really.