YAML Criticism and Alternatives
Comments debate the drawbacks of YAML as a data format, including its complexity, parsing issues, and overengineering, often preferring JSON, TOML, or other alternatives for configuration and serialization.
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What's wrong with YAML and what would you prefer and why?
Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with YAML?
I hate editing JSON by hand. Why not YAML?
Amazing that people use YAML if it does that.
Do you support yaml for people who dislike json?
They’re not worse than YAML…
Can I ask why YAML wasn't good enough?
YAML has all of the problems of JSON with some of the problems of XML, and some new ones thrown in. Avoid.
So it's YAML with all the cruft of JSON thrown back in?
What's worng with YAML? It seems to be the best of the kind I have seen.