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I don’t know much apart from the basics of YAML, what makes it complicated for computers to parse?

Sometimes it’s a space, sometimes its a tab, and sometimes it’s two spaces which might also be a tab but sometimes it’s 4 spaces which means 2 spaces are just whack And sometimes we want two and four spaces because people can’t agree.

But do we want quotes or is it actually a variable? Equals or colon? Porque no los dos?

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the spec is 10 chapters. everything is unquoted by default, so parsers must be able to guess the data type of every value, and will silently convert them if they are, but leave them alone otherwise. there are 63 possible combinations of string type. “no” and “on” are both valid booleans. it supports sexagesimal numbers for some reason, using the colon as a separator just like for objects. other things of this nature.

Yes, the classic “no” problem of YAML. But the addition of the comments is very nice.

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