On: YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

[magicalhippo]

As a Norwegian I'm very curious, where in the pipeline were you using YAML? And why?

I've only seen it used for configuration.

[StableAlkyne → magicalhippo]

I've seen teams use it as a replacement for JSON because it has the perception of being more "modern"

[bornfreddy → StableAlkyne]

While JSON is annoying because it lacks some pretty basic features (comments, trailing comma), at least its spec is short. YAML is huuuge - there are way too many ways to do the same thing.

[quechimba → magicalhippo]

We were using a fork of https://github.com/carmen-ruby/carmen/tree/master/iso_data/b... with our own translations. We used the data in the signup form.

[tough → magicalhippo]

usually locale's paths gone wrong