YAML is a truly broken poor thing. You'll find some of its quirks in this post. Highly recommend to check it out. I'm surprised that all of this still works somehow.
#yaml #json #format
#yaml #json #format
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
For a data format, yaml is extremely complicated. It aims to be a human-friendly format, but in striving for that it introduces so much complexity, that I would argue it achieves the opposite result. Yaml is full of footguns and its friendliness is deceptive.…
Awesome talk by JSON discoverer. How it all started, who were the competitors, and so on. A bunch of funny stories included. You won't regret watching.
#json #format #talk
#json #format #talk
YouTube
Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford tells the story of how JSON was discovered and how it became a major standard for describing data.