I can kind of understand it after having to work with an XML file where users encoded data into comments for no good reason. But yeah, it does make JSON awkward for lots of potential use-cases.
Almost all of those issues are solved by explicitly quoting your strings, the author even acknowledges that. Yeah it’s annoying that yaml lets you do otherwise, but the title is a bit dramatic.
Time to read this if you haven’t already
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
See, this is why we can’t have nice things.
I can kind of understand it after having to work with an XML file where users encoded data into comments for no good reason. But yeah, it does make JSON awkward for lots of potential use-cases.
As if I didn’t hate the format enough before
Almost all of those issues are solved by explicitly quoting your strings, the author even acknowledges that. Yeah it’s annoying that yaml lets you do otherwise, but the title is a bit dramatic.