Just take the time to learn it, it's really trivial once you take the time to learn the basic types. You have lists, dictionaries (maps), and primitives. It could not be easier.
I think the real problem is that yaml encourages you to make things declarative (which is 99% of the time a good thing) but sometimes hiding complexity is the wrong thing, and so when you have clashing declarations, the imperative resolution path is not necessarily explicit, and hidden behind an operations layer that you can't really see or reason about.
For some reason YAML seems to be an attractive option to try to implement things that really should be imperative in a declarative sense. Other configuration languages are either semi-imperative (like the hashicorp stuff) or don't do that (I haven't seen TOML configs that do some of the thing that YAML does). My best guess is it's purely cultural, because that trend started with ansible, which, not to denigrate - in many ways did very good things.
The trouble is that 1% of the time always hits at a very inopportune time.
linuxftw|5 years ago
dnautics|5 years ago
For some reason YAML seems to be an attractive option to try to implement things that really should be imperative in a declarative sense. Other configuration languages are either semi-imperative (like the hashicorp stuff) or don't do that (I haven't seen TOML configs that do some of the thing that YAML does). My best guess is it's purely cultural, because that trend started with ansible, which, not to denigrate - in many ways did very good things.
The trouble is that 1% of the time always hits at a very inopportune time.