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  • How does YAML compare to XML in terms of heaviness, then? I thought YAML was supposed to be a lightweight configuration language. If not, then I really don't see why people wouldn't just use XML or .ini-style config files.

    • YAML’s syntax is very lightweight, but extremely complex. If you only use the simple constructs, it ends up looking very clean and human-readable, but there are a lot of complex (ie. hard to explain to non-techies) constructs, and they all rely on funny (read: obfuscatory) punctuation.

      XML has rather heavyweight syntax, but there are far fewer constructs than YAML has. It’s not really designed for rigidly and heavily structured things like data structures; it lends itself much better to “documents,” ie. things that consist mostly of text with markup mixed right in.

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