• tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.com
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    16 hours ago

    YAML is (mostly) a superset of JSON. Is the face hugger any less evil than the alien bursting out of your chest?

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      16 hours ago

      It’s got enough serious flaws and quirks that I can feel smug hating on it. JSON is far from perfect, but overall it’s the least worst of human-readable formats.

      Only Python manages to get away with syntactical indentation.

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        15 hours ago

        The complaints about yaml’s quirks (no evaluating to false, implicit strings, weird number formats, etc.) are valid in theory but I’ve never encountered them causing any real-life issues.