In Defense of YAML

If you follow me on Twitter, you may think I hate YAML.I'm not against YAML, just against abuse of YAML. I want to help prevent people abusing YAML and being cruel to themselves and their coworkers in the process.YAML's strength is as a structured data format. Yes, it has issues. Whitespace is a minefield. Its syntax is surprisingly complex. It has gotchas: "Anyone who uses YAML long enough will eventually get burned when attempting to abbreviate Norway." But YAML is human readable and supports comments: two key benefits that drive its popularity.Where it can go wrong is where we use YAML to describe behavior.