Post #3377979
2026-04-25 19:58 UTC
@cks@mastodon.social I'm inclined to think the same about yaml.
It gets used for configuration in the sense that any extension language can be used as a configuration language.
The syntax is so that it reminds me of the time some idiot added if-then-else to xml itself.
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@cks@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 20:01
@davecb@hachyderm.io I don't like YAML all that much but at least it has comments and forces people to write multi-line things and so on. It's more or less a tolerable universal solvent at this point, although it's not actively good the way a configuration file format could be. (If you don't need nesting there are simpler general formats like TOML.)
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@scruss@xoxo.zone 2026-04-25 22:33
@davecb@hachyderm.io that if-then-else made my day!