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MichalI like this. I also like yaml, I’ve had very few issues with it and it’s nicer to work with than json.
Json’s lack of support for trailing commas and comments makes it very annoying for everyday use.
Just the other day I had a list show up as [“a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, false, “g”, “h”, “i”].
The issue was that, without me being overly aware of it, the data was going through a data -> yaml -> data step.
Yes, the data -> yaml filter was broken for not putting general strings in quotes. But IMO the yaml design invites these odd “rare” bugs.
I used to like yaml, but was happy to see Toml taking the niche of human-readable-JSON, but felt the format for nested key-value was a weird choice. However, I’ve always felt we could just have extended JSON a bit (allow line breaks, comments, if the outermost data type is an object, the curly brackets may be omitted).
EthanI completely agree with the general assessment, but then there are always pesky exceptions. In this case the list entered a JavaScript frontend from the yaml header of machine generated content pages for the website framework Hugo. And, of course, after finding the bug, it is clear that things could have been done differently and the issue easily avoided, but I also don’t think this was a completely unreasonable design. Since Hugo actually suppots JSON headers (not just via the yaml parser, but thanks for that tip!), that was a quick fix. But I’m also somewhat amazed that it was possible for the strung-together fairly standard set of Python libraries (primarily pyyaml) to not get the strings properly quoted.