On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: > Sorry, I know this topic is old, but I was wondering: Why is YAML > considered harmful? It's on http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/, but I > can't find references about why I should not use it. Do you guys have > documents or readings to provide about this? >
Hello, When it was designed, some of JSON's goals was to be minimal and future-proof. As it is described in [1], you can expect it not to change. On the other hand, YAML is not a standard (and its description is quite huge [2]). Same data can be represented in many different ways, and as syntax is considerably more complex, YAML parsers are more buggy. TL;DR : JSON sucks less. Do you really need more expressivity in the serialization language ? [1] RFC 4627, The application/json Media Type for JSON [2] http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html -- Etienne Millon
