YAML configuration is more difficult to do than the actual programming itself. JSON and ini files are way better.

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jasongodev

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vintprox

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Let me welcome you to TOML.
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darkwind

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Thankfully python made me prepared for that

I find YAMLing being easy.
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iiii

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Json is an unstructured mess
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hubiruchi

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Why is json easier for you than yaml? The indentation?
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koes

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The mere fact that you can have comments in YAML makes it a thousand times better for configuration than JSON.
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nebula

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i always disliked yaml.

then i built a kubernetes cluster for which i had to write a lot of yaml stuff. now i like it.
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gitpush

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I hate yanl when editing a file in terminal indentation is annoying but in an editor like vs code it's fine.
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eo2875

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@vintprox TOML has a horrible way of representing nested objects
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ScriptCoded

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@eo2875 Then don't use TOML for that 🤷🏻‍♂️
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petergriffin

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@koes you idiot you do have comments in json
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koes

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@petergriffin go ahead and show me a comment is JSON.
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vintprox

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@petergriffin comments in what again?
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korrat

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Isn't YAML a superset of JSON?
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Earu

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Comments in JSON are definitely NOT a thing at least not part of official specs anyway
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vintprox

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@korrat for what reason? It's not backwards-compatible with JSON.
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PepeTheFrog

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I'll take ini, toml, json or yaml any time over fucking xml configs.

Fuck xml and those coworkers who decided to use it in 2021.

N.B.: to me json and yaml are pretty much the same. The indentation is not a problem.
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jasongodev

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@PepeTheFrog xml for the sake of "hey we used xml, its standardized and it's cool..." Like the androidmanifest and other configs...another xml bloat are the api responses.
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korrat

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@vintprox Please elaborate? To quote from the YAML spec: "every JSON file is also a valid YAML file".
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cherryblossom

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This website is a helpful cheatsheet for YAML multiline strings: https://yaml-multiline.info