5 engineers on Hacker News describe using YAML first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“My editor tells me when I'm doing something stupid with Make whitespace. It's impossible to do the same for yaml.”
regret · personal · ok123456 · 2023-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“whatever tool we used parsed the Yaml value as a sexagesimal number and threw a type error. Yaml can be interesting…”
regret · production · EddTheSDET · 2023-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use to write purely is JSON, and when we switched over to YAML we were surprised how much easier it was when writing it day in day out.”
endorse · production · gervwyk · 2021-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“YAML is a bit too... enormous for my taste personally, but at least it's better than JSON.”
mixed · production · reissbaker · 2019-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we really aren't using YAML to its full potential.”
neutral · production · peterwwillis · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?