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		Cloudef on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is better than YAML – Hear me out >when it is a data serialization format. How? It's even worse as a serialization format. Why would you want to serialize into human readable blob anyways? https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks

throwawaaarrgh on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

That person is using it wrong. They are writing the file by hand, violating the spec. Don't write yaml by hand. It is not designed to be used that way.

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