DEV Community


Discussion on: Stop Using YAML

rangerelf profile image

Like any language it will have it's idiosyncrasies, my recommendation would be to learn them and internalize them, and then they won't distract you as much, they'll stop being a pain point.

That said, "the right tool for the job" rule suggests that calling out to a shell script might be the right thing for anything more complex and a simple command.

Significant whitespace and ampersands-for-macros doesn't a bad language make.

jessekphillips profile image
Jesse Phillips Author

I feel like you didn't internalize my arguments. Calling out to a shell script for more complex things is exactly what I was doing.

Needing to internalize all of yaml in order to use it was kind of my point. YAML looks easy and human friendly, but rather than learn a few things which are common across most any language (strings use quotes and thus quotes need escaped, and thus escaping needs escape). No you need a to know a very special language. So why not instead internalize a simple, but annoying language?