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Isn't this confirmation bias at work? These are poor decisions of different degrees, but they're still simply poor decisions. I have no horse in this race. I s

Isn't this confirmation bias at work? These are poor decisions of different degrees, but they're still simply poor decisions. I have no horse in this race. I suffered with the shortcomings of all of these formats. So I don't see a point in saying "this one is in a different category of bad". YAML was built with different ideas in mind. If we are so adamant on hating on something, we should hate the projects that chose YAML over something else.

nailer 3y ago
> These are poor decisions of different degrees We agree. > but they're still simply poor decisions I, the other poster, and the article writer feel a preponderance of poor decisions regarding YAML (mentioned in the story) make it much worse than a few poor decisions regarding JSON or similar.
boxed 3y ago
No it's not confirmation bias. The linked site has TONS OF EXAMPLES of why. XML is verbose, that's pretty much the only problem. JSON is simple, that's its only problem. Those are TINY problems.