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Every time I see YAML used for any configuration I know I’m in a frustrating time. It’s particularly bad for build systems where there the feedback time can be so slow.


I agree it doesn't scale well as there are no loops/functions, but there's a lot of good tooling around YAML that other config languages lack:

- mature libs for most languages

- VScode plugin + Jsonschema for auto completion / schema checking

- yamllint to detect the languages footguns

- yq to query, update in place, and format while preserving comments and sorting keys from the CLI




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