As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

A 10 minute read covering some YAML edge-cases that you should have in mind when writing complex YAML files

  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    10 months ago

    all json is valid yaml and can be parsed with a yaml parser. Yaml is literally a superset of json. In what world are they not comparable?