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[-] jim@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think yaml was a perfectly fine way to express a hash/dict like config. I am surprised that toml was so widely adopted by the community.

[-] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

YAML is extremely complex for a configuration format and it has many really weird edge cases:

https://noyaml.com/

The problem is IMHO made worse because it looks so friendly at first glance.

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