YAML: Probably not so great after all

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Post by kylequest » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

YAML: Probably not so great after all
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Post by jbaudanza » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

These are all valid points. But I still find YAML to be the best format for storing my strings for localizations. I find it much easier on my eyes than JSON. I’m open to other suggestions though.

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Post by QuinnyPig » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

If the JSON and YAML folks can’t get along, I swear I’ll turn this car around and make you all use XML.

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Post by leoc » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:16 PM UTC

XML is as pleasant to look at or touch as a nettle rash, but it seems it can join ALGOL 60 among the ranks of technologies which were a great improvement on their successors.

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Post by rc_mob » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Heh, yaml haters unite! I wish yaml would go away.

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Post by rc_mob » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

jbaudanza wrote: post #2

These are all valid points. But I still find YAML to be the best format for storing my strings for localizations. I find it much easier on my eyes than JSON. I’m open to other suggestions though.

Per the article consider Toml

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Post by ozten » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

Another one: Parsing partial YAML files doesn’t detect an error with loading the complete file. We’ve had a production outage, because of large yaml files getting cutoff and not all settings getting loaded into our server. JSON or XML typically will not parse.

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Post by CameronNemo » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

QuinnyPig wrote: post #3

If the JSON and YAML folks can’t get along, I swear I’ll turn this car around and make you all use XML.

inb4 YAML adds "Yeah, nah." and "Nah, yeah." as boolean values. Interpretation is locale dependent.

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Post by sipos » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

QuinnyPig wrote: post #3

If the JSON and YAML folks can’t get along, I swear I’ll turn this car around and make you all use XML.

To be fair, the article begins by linking to a previous article by the same author about the problems with JSON. He is an equal opportunities opponent :)

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

rc_mob wrote: post #5

Heh, yaml haters unite! I wish yaml would go away.

For what use cases, and what would you prefer?