alt Hacker NewsYAML is the worst format.
You are literally one missing tab away from breaking your entire configuration file. Yet the industry keeps pushing it for the sake of “simplicity” - for small configurations sure, it’s fine, but many hundred lines of config entries? Good luck fixing it, if something goes wrong.
I still can’t get why software engineers suddenly started to hate XML.
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Long time ago i thought .properties was bad, as it has no structure. But later I realized repeating full path to every config param is really good for readability, and code reviews.
The only thing I wish it had is @import-s from a separate files, that way we could split local/checkedin configs. YAML doesn't have @imports as well (only rudimentary from the same file), I have only seen them at HOCON.
Cause it's very verbose. A lot more syntax to break.
I personally think the best is one of the humanized json ones like https://maml.dev/