> But very few actually want to put on the enormous amount of work needed to improve YAML or create a new language. Actually a lot of people do work on creatin

> But very few actually want to put on the enormous amount of work needed to improve YAML or create a new language. Actually a lot of people do work on creating new languages, but I think language nerds create languages for other language nerds, not really for the bulk of people who need something simple. They always want to make them functional and immutable or self-hosting or build high performance webservers with them. Things that nobody wants to do with YAML. What we need is a configuration language with the simplicity of Logo or the C that was in the old ANSI C Book. So YAML is the most flexible and bastardizable markup language and it gets used for configuration as well, even though it is terrible.