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1. David Thompson (davexunit@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 16:25:30 UTC David Thompson
   YAML is the worst markup language I've ever seen. Can we stop using it? Pretty please?
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   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 17:14:12 UTC Christopher M. Hobbs

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     What do you suggest as a replacement?
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   • David Thompson (davexunit@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 17:17:15 UTC David Thompson

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     • Christopher M. Hobbs
     @cmhobbs literally anything else.  JSON, s-expressions, XML, etc.
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   • Windigo ☴ (windigo@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 17:35:31 UTC Windigo ☴

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     • Christopher M. Hobbs
     @davexunit @cmhobbs I feel like JSON is a pretty good medium. Minimal, flexible, simple syntax. I tend to lean towards that.
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 22:32:29 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @davexunit Yeah. I get where #yaml is coming from, and it had its day, but really, #JSON is the lingua franca for these structures now.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Oct-2015 22:34:26 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @davexunit Amusingly, a large subset of #JSON is valid and parsed correctly as #YAML. YAML just has more, unnecessary, expression syntax.