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		kelnos on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is better than YAML – Hear me out Regardless of what it was meant for, it's a worse serialization format than it is a configuration format, despite its warts.

throwawaaarrgh on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

It's a perfectly reasonable serialization format and works fine as such. It does not work well as a configuration format, because humans are not supposed to write it by hand.

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