dud: A dub replacement

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 11/18/19 3:54 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 
> Perhaps this ship has already sail. But YAML would have been a better 
> choice. It's a superset of JSON. All the existing JSON description files 
> would have worked as is.
YAML's grammar is a convoluted read-only mess. Every time I have to 
write it I feel like I'm just guessing and hoping I'm magically writing 
it correctly. I've even had silent problems on travis-ci that turned out 
to be .travis.yml not being parsed the way I thought. That sort of thing 
shouldn't even be *possible* on a config file format.

Especially irritating to me is even just the basic nesting - the whole 
"sometimes you HAVE to use a hyphen and sometimes you have to OMIT the 
hyphen (or it'll silently be interpreted wrong)". And yea, yea, "Object 
vs array", whatever, but when you're using YAML for hand-written config 
files, the whole distinction between what should be objects vs arrays is 
just a big pile of arbitrary pointlessness (a flaw it inherits from JSON).

And the grammar being a superset of JSON doesn't really help much in 
practice, because real idiomatic YAML in the wild (including config file 
examples) doesn't use it.