Good lord #yaml is crap compared to #json https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/.. It's simply too #complex and suffers many of the problems that #xml does as it tried to #replace it...
@barray on Sun Aug 15 03:08:15 UTC 2021 said: &eI would go further with my support of #json - I have been able to give a #configuration file to people who have never touched it before in their lives, and they figured out how to edit it within a few seconds. #yaml on the other hand has tonnes of tiny edge cases that cause it to fail to parse.I've personally experienced #yaml (through #pandoc #configuration ) and #json through many other programs, and I *much* prefer JSON. As mentioned in the following article, YAML is *actively* hostile towards any kind of complex structure: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog.. The other benefit for something like JSON is that it is parsed by #js really easily and looks like a #cfamily language.
I've personally experienced #yaml (through #pandoc #configuration ) and #json through many other programs, and I *much* prefer JSON. As mentioned in the following article, YAML is *actively* hostile towards any kind of complex structure: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog.. The other benefit for something like JSON is that it is parsed by #js really easily and looks like a #cfamily language.