YAML: It's Time to Move On
Author seems to use misfeatures of a particular implementation to tar all implementations with. The round-tripping issue is not a statement about YAML as a markup language, much in the way a rendering bug in Firefox is not a statement about the web.<p>Stepping back a bit, YAML is good enough, and this problem has been incrementally bikeshedded since at least the 1970s, it is time to move on. Human-convenient interfaces (like YAML, bash, perl) are fundamentally messy because we are messy. They&#x27;re prone to opinion and style, as if replacing some part or other will make the high level problem (that&#x27;s us) go away. Fretting over perfection in UI is an utterly pointless waste of time.<p>I don&#x27;t know what NestedText is and find it very difficulty to care, there are far more important problems in life to be concerned with than yet another incremental retake on serialization. I find it hard to consider contributions like this to be helpful or represent progress in any way.