Things I Don’t Like in Configuration Languages

Things I Don’t Like in Configuration Languages Spoiler: I created my own configuration language maml.dev Here will be a list of all markup languages/configuration languages I found on the internet, and things I don’t like about them. YAML – – 1 – 2 – – 3 – 4 YAML 1.2 is better than YAML 1.0. But still, the YAML specification is monstrous, and I don’t get how people trying to implement it are not going insane. YAML contains too many features. XML <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <catalog xmlns=”https://ex.com/catalog” xmlns:cat=”https://ex.com/catalog” xmlns:old=”https://ex.com/oldcatalog”> <item id=”0042″> <name>R&amp;D Handbook</name> <notes priority=”1 2 3″>n/a</notes> </item> </catalog> The era of XML is in the past. I…

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