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I loved YAML until I read the spec, and now I dislike most of YAML beyond the basics and avoid it unless "ease of humans to edit" is a primary goal.
by dharmab 3y ago
I loved YAML until I read the spec, and now I dislike most of YAML beyond the basics and avoid it unless "ease of humans to edit" is a primary goal.
- politelemon 3y agoI think our industry's distraction with config file formats is due to trying to find a reasonable balance between human readable and machine readable. XML was great for machines, YAML is OK for humans, JSON/TOML are somewhere in the middle.