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by yas_hmaheshwari 487 days ago
Can you explain why is Yaml cancerous (Genuine question)

I have always preferred (even without thinking) to use configuration files as Yaml and kept Json for interprocess communication

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Many people explained it better than I ever could, so let me defer to them. TL;DR: YAML is an overcomplicated spec with too many footguns.

- https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...

- https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html

- https://noyaml.com/ (couldn't not mention this famous piece)