The YAML Document From Hell — JavaScript Edition

Is YAML writing fun?

Phil Nash
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readFeb 2, 2023

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I recently came across this blog post from Ruud van Asseldonk titled “The yaml document from hell”.

I’ve always heard that YAML has its pitfalls, but hadn’t looked into the details — and thankfully hadn’t been affected — mainly due to my very infrequent and simple use of YAML. If you are in the same boat as me, I…

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