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YAML sucks.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-09-09 · latest 2024-01-23

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  1. …Dockerfile. Want config? Use JSON. And if you need something more "human friendly", use TOML. [1]: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks [2]: https://changelog.com/posts/xml-better-than-yaml [3]: https://noyaml.com/
    comment by usrbinbash · 2024-01-23 · in Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
  2. …worse as a serialization format. Why would you want to serialize into human readable blob anyways? https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
    comment by Cloudef · 2023-09-21 · in XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
  3. …Take a leaf out of Rust's book and use something simple and sane like TOML, YAML is a mess. See: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks Otherwise this looks like a great project, please don't ruin it with YAML.
    comment by sanity31415 · 2021-04-22 · in Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
  4. …I would definitely not call it easy to read and write. It has super-weak (see this for examples: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks ) dynamic typing, which coupled with requiring awful templating to get anything non-trivial done it has…
    comment by mixedCase · 2020-07-14 · in Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
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    story by NickBusey · 2020-05-15 · 0 comments
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    story by talles · 2020-01-14 · 2 comments
  7. This is my favorite collections of reasons that yaml is a bad config file format: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
    comment by bostonvaulter2 · 2019-02-09 · in Why are we templating YAML?
  8. …mature software and jump at something new that makes claims about being 'simple and easy'. [1]: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks/
    comment by swalladge · 2019-01-20 · in Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go
  9. Library comparison: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
    comment by earonesty · 2018-07-02 · in YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
  10. Obligatory link to the "YAML sucks" repo: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks If you ignore the flame-inducing title, it's just a table showing how different implementations parse YAML input in very different ways.
    comment by strkek · 2018-06-04 · in Data serialization
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    story by nailer · 2018-02-05 · 1 comment
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    story by nailer · 2017-11-14 · 0 comments
  13. Here are some examples: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks TBH, common JSON implementations have their problems too. Integer size and integer/float (de-)serialization tend to be somewhat interesting at times. I've even seen implementations…
    comment by sebcat · 2017-09-09 · in A modest proposal