Andrew Nesbitt
Call me a curmudgeon, but I much prefer reading and writing YAML to TOML, even with all the footguns.
May 11 at 3:38pmWeb
Show threadEmily_S6d ago
@andrewnez Been at this long enough I'd still take xml over either of them
Show threadKevin P. Fleming6d ago
@andrewnez Same. Tables in TOML are pretty awful.
Show threadMichael Winters6d ago

@andrewnez I have no beef with YAML itself, but trying to template a whitespace-significant markup language (ala Helm) is a very special hell which somehow most of the world has accepted as "this is fine".

It's sort of like the argument regarding firearms. Sure, guns by themselves don't kill people, but a lot fewer people get murdered when guns are hard to find. Hence, we need to ban YAML.

Show threadMichael Winters6d ago
@andrewnez I mourn the thousands of human years that have been spent counting spaces in YAML in order to write #Helm charts. What wonders of the world could have been created with that time? How many moments of joy between parent and child have been sacrificed?
Show threadAndrew Nesbitt6d ago
@mwinters strong agree on that, especially in GitHub actions!
Show threadYorgos Saslis6d ago

@andrewnez @mwinters the most fun I had writing pipelines was in #groovy (for #jenkins).

And yet… Somehow the world prefers #yaml ? 🤷‍♂️

Show threadalpha6d ago
@andrewnez I have a pretty strong preference for KDL, followed by YAML, and then it’s a toss up between TOML and JSON.
Show threaddefer5d ago
@andrewnez same. TOML is neither obvious nor minimal.