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

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    That has XML semantics, which isn’t what people want in the vast majority of cases. They want JSON semantics because it matches programming language object models.

    XML semantics are good for documents.