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See how much fun these people have trying to figure out why their application crashes because they put a tab instead of spaces into the YAML file.


We use a YAML linter before attempting to load the file. Provides detailed feedback to the user: "Tab found at line 17, column 23"

Also detects repeated hash keys. This is a very good compromise between user-friendliness and machine-friendly specification and serialization.

Thank you very much for YAML! It is a critical user-interceptable interchange mechanism at several companies that I have worked at.




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