[bfung]

Really? Putting quotes around strings is called escaping now?

    One workaround is to escape the string, like this:
    
    countries:
      - DE
      - FR
      - "NO"
      - PL
      - RO

Comon, it’s 2026, yeah yaml’s design can lead to odd type casts, but a whole essay on this? Keep it under 140 chars pls.

[somat]

Also YAML fixed this in (checks spec) 2009 with the 1.2 version. If projects want to keep using old spec that's not yamls fault.

I have doubts about the over all utility of yaml. I am not sure how readable it is over well formed json. and my main exposure to it is ansible which suffers from the inner platform effect where in order to save us from programming a programming language is jammed into a non programming language(usually XML but in this case YAML) and every one is more miserable for the experience. But complaining about a thing that is fixed is wierd.