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mcdonje on Sept 23, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: YAML document from hell (2023)

It's because other config formats aren't as expressive.

aranw on Sept 23, 2025 | [–]

> It's because other config formats aren't as expressive.

Oh yeah it is literally the best of a bad bunch in my opinion

I'm hopeful of languages like CUE https://cuelang.org/

esafak on Sept 23, 2025 | [–]

See starlark, dall, jsonnet, cuelang, toml, etc.

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