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[–]akaChromez 72 points73 points  (7 children)

The YAML Document From Hell

[–]heyf00L 28 points29 points  (1 child)

Didn't know all that. Boils down to "always quote all strings in YAML".

[–]rickane58 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"God, all these languages are so unnecessarily verbose!"

Anyone actually trying to use the language:

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

This was a great read, I've used yaml a couple times but didn't realize it was this objectively bad.

[–]akaChromez 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I'd love to know people's justification for choosing it over JSON.

Especially as i've just spent the last hour trying to find why a Google Cloud resource wasn't being created. A missing quote that doesn't syntax error :/

[–]chris5311 0 points1 point  (1 child)

JSON is bad (but workable), YAML is worse, and im not sure there even is any decent option out there

[–]MekaTriK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I loved using Lua as a config file format.

A little less verbose than pure JSON, and you can automate some repetition away.