We seem to have something in common: there is a serialisation form, we strongly dislike. But what I cannot understand is: why the heck would anyone torture anyone else to read or even write XML? XML is the absolutely worst configuration language I can imagine. I mean: when is something an attribute, when a tag on its own? What is even a list? And don’t forget to include a full HTTP URI for the namespace, otherwise the tag is not defined.

By the way: all valid JSON is valid yaml as well. So in theory, you can use yaml as JSON with comments.

Somebody has to say it, so I’m taking on the duty:

If whitespace is a problem, you use the wrong editor.

I had to really laugh at “screamy dreamy”

To be fair: This is what everyone expects when you install software for Windows. Just download a more or less “good looking” binary blob, execute it with administrative privileges and hope that it will do what you want it to do.

Mozilla recently tried to integrate some AI stuff into its MDN. The corresponding Github issue is correctly titled “MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information”.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208