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by firearm-halter 1680 days ago
I think the important difference between NestedText and YAML is that NestedText does not try to convert the text to numbers or booleans. YAML converts on to True and 3.10 to 3.1, which in this case is undesired. NestedText keeps text as strings. The idea is that end application should be the one that determines if on is a string or a boolean and whether 3.10 is a string or a number.

Its all in the name. All leaf values are strings. It is literally nested text.