>If it was that bad, nobody would use it Well, maybe they think that it's worth "hating" on it because people are using it, and they want to make people aware

>If it was that bad, nobody would use it Well, maybe they think that it's worth "hating" on it because people are using it, and they want to make people aware of the problems? I know I do, though "hating" sounds like I have malicious intent, which I do not. I am sure the creator(s) are very bright people with nothing but good intentions. But I agree with the article that YAML is frustrating to work with. The "it's not perfect, but neither is anything" argument is a bit of a cop-out in my opinion, as that can be applied to anything and everything. I feel (but don't know!) that YAML was inspired by markdown as an attempt to create a format that felt like the most natural and intuitive to read for humans, while still machine-consumable. A noble idea, but in my opinion, one that fails as soon as you have more than half a page of configuration. Then, it just becomes a pain to even figure out which parent a specific bullet belongs to. And that's not even getting into all the cleverness. I don't want to create a new language because [XKCD standards comic]. I'd prefer people use JSON or TOML as I consider those better even if they have plenty of issues on their own.