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Why YAML sucks?
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
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To paraphrase: There are two kinds of markup languages. Those that people complain about and those that nobody uses.
There is no silver bullet that will work perfectly for all use cases and we also don't want to use 100 different tools. So people use things that aren't perfect. But they're good enough. I don't think YAML is perfect and I still use it, because people know it and there are tons of tools already available.
But it's not a markup language.. It's for data serialisation..
I remember the time when YAML meant Yet Another Markup Language.