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		lolinder on Sept 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: That's a Lot of YAML > Whatever generated that clearly wasn't serializing its data using a library Wow, you couldn't ask for a stronger condemnation than that for YAML as a configuration language. "You clearly weren't using a library to write your config file". In the world I live in, config file formats exist to be written and read by humans. Serialization formats exist to be generated by libraries.

8n4vidtmkvmk on Sept 30, 2023 [–]

Not to mention YAML itself purports to be human friendly. Otherwise the config files would have been JSON or something else.

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