> YAML is far easier to read and parse as a human than JSON.
When you're on line 4000 of a YAML configuration file and the previous 70 lines have been at indentation level 6, and you see a blank line and another line at indentation level 4 (or is that 5? maybe 3?) then I strongly, strongly disagree that two '}' characters are more difficult to read than newlines, tabs, and spaces.
YAML is one of a family of languages borne from the idea that punctuation is bad and therefore should be invisible. Not gone, because all of these languages still have punctuation. No, these characters that are critically important to the interpretation of the file must be invisible.
Code and markup is easy to read when it is easy to predict what the computer will do when it parses it. Invisible punctuation makes the files harder to read, not easier. The only thing easier in YAML is writing it in the first place, and we all know that "write-only" is an insult.
When you're on line 4000 of a YAML configuration file and the previous 70 lines have been at indentation level 6, and you see a blank line and another line at indentation level 4 (or is that 5? maybe 3?) then I strongly, strongly disagree that two '}' characters are more difficult to read than newlines, tabs, and spaces.
YAML is one of a family of languages borne from the idea that punctuation is bad and therefore should be invisible. Not gone, because all of these languages still have punctuation. No, these characters that are critically important to the interpretation of the file must be invisible.
Code and markup is easy to read when it is easy to predict what the computer will do when it parses it. Invisible punctuation makes the files harder to read, not easier. The only thing easier in YAML is writing it in the first place, and we all know that "write-only" is an insult.