For a data format, yaml is extremely complicated. It aims to be a human-friendly format, but in striving for that it introduces so much complexity, that I would argue it achieves the opposite result. Yaml is full of footguns and its friendliness is deceptive. In this post I want to demonstrate this through an example.

Ruud van Asseldonk

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell