As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

A 10 minute read covering some YAML edge-cases that you should have in mind when writing complex YAML files

  • lurklurk@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just don’t do yaml.

    yq can translate yaml to json and in most cases json is still valid yaml