Andrew Nesbitt6d ago
Call me a curmudgeon, but I much prefer reading and writing YAML to TOML, even with all the footguns.
Show threadMichael Winters

@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.

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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 ? 🤷‍♂️