I hadn't really looked into YAML before, so I fed it some data for a web app I'm working on. Man, It sure is condensed, but because of that, not very readable

I hadn't really looked into YAML before, so I fed it some data for a web app I'm working on. Man, It sure is condensed, but because of that, not very readable to me. If this is the standard for YAML, it's definitely interesting, but not my cup of tea. It's sometimes hard to parse where a list ends or an object begins. If you want to argue that it's more space efficient, I'd say, just use gzipped JSON. If you want to say you're using it for the spacing and/or line breaks, I'd just say find a viewer that prettifies your JSON well. Having a delimiter, at least when you're representing chunks of data, is really useful, easier to code for, and easier to read than tabs or other systems. This, not so much. It's kind of a hot mess. Maybe that thinking works well in python, but I'm not so sure the principle translates away from code. If I have a list of objects, I really need to know where one thing ends and the next begins without having to keep track of more than one thing at a time.