My problem with yaml is if you truncate it at any random spot, there's a high likelihood it's still valid yaml. I don't like the idea that things can continue without even knowing there's a problem. The single opening and closing curly braces enclosing a json object is all it takes to at least know you didn't receive the entire message. Toml has the same issue. I'll stick with json when it makes sense.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add a schema to it and you get XML. The ultimate serialization format.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Quite like YAML, XML has too many stuff in it. While a lot of parsers are not standard compliant and safe, if there's any chance the stuff you include on your code can evolve into a fully featured parser, including it is something to avoid.

There is this language called KDL that looks interesting.