> I feel like YAML is a spiritual successor to the .ini, since it shares a notable ideal of simple human readability/writability. It doesn't feel that way to m

> I feel like YAML is a spiritual successor to the .ini, since it shares a notable ideal of simple human readability/writability. It doesn't feel that way to me: it's neither simple to read nor to write. I suppose that that's a builtin problem due to tree representation, which is something that INI files were never expected to represent. TBH, I actually prefer the various tree representation workarounds used by INI files: using whitespace to indicate child nodes stops being readable once you have more than a screenful of children in a node.