"When you work with a format as complex as yaml, it is difficult to be aware of all the features and subtle behaviors it has. There is an entire website dedicated to picking one of the 63 different multi-line string syntaxes."
Wow. I knew YAML was too complex for real use, but I had no idea it was *possible* to invent that many multi-line string syntaxes.
https://ruuda.nl/2023/the-yaml-document-from-hell
Mike Taylor 🦕
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