In Defense of YAML

SafeYAML

https://noyaml.com/

Did you know that Norway's ISO country code is also valid YAML for False?

You Do Now.

— Christopher Neugebauer 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@chrisjrn) February 24, 2020

Putting

go:
- 1.10

in your @travisci yaml will leave you with 1.1. You need to quote it. Use

go:
- "1.10"

instead.#golang

— Damian Gryski (@dgryski) February 16, 2018

• YAML integrates and builds upon concepts described by, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, RFC0822 (MAIL, RFC1866 (HTML, RFC2045 (MIME, RFC2396 (URI, XML, SAX, SOAP , and JSON .

• JSON's RFC4627 requires that mappings keys merely “SHOULD” be unique, while YAML insists they “MUST” be. Technically, YAML therefore complies with the JSON spec, choosing to treat duplicates as an error. In practice, since JSON is silent on the semantics of such duplicates, the only portable JSON files are those with unique keys, which are therefore valid YAML files.

• Tilde (~) means NULL Source