Discussion on: Stop Using YAML

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Kevin Ard • Oct 13 '19

We play a fine line between person and machine. More often than not, the machines win.

If anything, I played the middle ground - the "humans and machines can get along now" side of things.

Really, though, it's purely objective:

the tools that have made yaml ubiquitous are written in Go.
Go has struct tags and marshaling.
Why marshal to json when you can marshal to yaml with zero effort?
such is yaml.

When go dies, yaml will die.
Maybe?

Arnauld Van Muysewinkel • Oct 14 '19

Not only Go is a friend of YAML. It happens that Python syntax shares several similarities with YAML, and using YAML is very natural to a Python programmer. Go may die, YAML will survive add long as Python does ;-).