Can't believe we're still using yaml lol like it's actually getting more popular, not less
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It would be so easy to extend JSON in a far more reasonable way by simply adding comments, non-string keys and some additional types / features without ambiguous syntax. Even YAML's take on Python-style indentation is very weird and ambiguous. It's simply a bad format...
One of the few redeeming qualifies is reusing blocks of configuration but it's so extremely limited and they decided YAML was focused on being a data serialization format with configuration as a low priority so they stopped improving that and it's essentially deprecated.
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JSON using quotes for string keys is a good thing because it means you can add non-string keys unambiguously unlike JavaScript where it has to be a whole separate Map type to fix what was wrong with trying to use Object as a dictionary type.