cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1743099
.yaml, .toml, etc?
4 points
XML is a bit verbose but otherwise easy to understand. JSON5 supports comments.
And neither requires me to explain weird formatting nuances to devops engineers.
YAML is a pain to read (lists of structures are very messy), can’t be auto-formatted, and is full of weird “gotchas” (Norway, errant tabs, etc.) if you don’t do things “the right way.”
Requiring the use of whitespace in formatting is wrong. End of.
0 points
Somebody has to say it, so I’m taking on the duty:
If whitespace is a problem, you use the wrong editor.
6 points