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by crdoconnor 2999 days ago
I wrote this because while I like the basics of YAML, I think 95% of the spec is idiotic and needs to be tossed away:

http://hitchdev.com/strictyaml

Ideally there should only be one scalar type (strings), two ways to represent strings (simple | multiline), just one way to represent mappings and lists. No nodes/anchors, no "YAML is a superset of JSON" silliness and absolutely no implicitly typed scalar values.