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Software engineers on Twitter -- do you feel Yaml is a good choice for configuration files? If not, what do you like to use?

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no no no no no no no no. that is all

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JSON, INI, anything with syntactic structure. Oops, you missed 1 space? sorry your whole thing is broken. I've seen live systems go down because someone added 1 extra space somewhere. ofc validation etc etc, just no, no no no.

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There's also this crowd, mostly because it's lacking comments. twitter.com/search?q=json%

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Fun fact: Yaml is a superset of JSON.

1:53 PM · Jun 17, 2020Twitter for Android