strictyaml
Type-safe YAML parser and validator. (by crdoconnor)
nestedtext
Human readable and writable data interchange format (by KenKundert)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
strictyaml
Posts with mentions or reviews of strictyaml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.
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XML is better than YAML
NestedText already is the way I use YAML; everything is intepreted as a string. I have some trust in my YAML parser to not mangle most strings. I could use NestedText, but users would be unfamiliar with it, and IIRC the only parsers are in Python. But then I could use StrictYaml too https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
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The new type of SQL injection
you can stick to a subset of YAML syntax (e.g. strictYAML)
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DO YOU YAML?
YAML stands for "YAML Ain’t Markup Language" - this is known as a recursive acronym. YAML is often used for writing configuration files. It’s human readable, easy to understand and can be used with other programming languages. Although YAML is commonly used in many disciplines, it has received criticism on the amoutn of whitespace .yml files have, difficulty in editing, and complexity of the standard. Despite the criticism, properly using YAML ensures that you can reproduce the results of a project and makes sure that the virtual environment packages play nicely with system packages. (If you're looking for another way to share environments there are other alternatives to YAML which include StrictYAML (a type-safe YAML parser) and NestedText)
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The yaml document from hell
The example you linked provides this as an example of a YAML document that he wants his format to support.
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The YAML Document from Hell
That safe subset exists and is implemented in a number of languages. It is called strict-yaml: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
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Hacker News top posts: Jul 3, 2022
StrictYAML\ (33 comments)
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Why JSON Isn’t a Good Configuration Language (2018)
To me those are in the category of "nice to have", and the problem is that every developer has different preferences for these [1] [2]. But the main features of StrictYaml, like supporting comments and less syntactic noise, I think are pretty uncontroversial, and perhaps it's worth it to get people to switch over for those alone. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be a significant enough improvement over JSON, and I'd say those two features are more than enough
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YAML: The Missing Battery in Python
For manually-maintained data, I'm inclined to stick within the syntax limits of StrictYAML. It keeps me from getting too fancy.
nestedtext
Posts with mentions or reviews of nestedtext.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.
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The yaml document from hell
As /u/astatine said, an excellent but under-recognized alternative syntax for configuration files is NestedText, where everything is a string unless the ingesting code says otherwise, and there is no escaping needed ever.
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Yaml: First Class Citizen?
I don't know what traits from markdown you'd hope for, but for a relatively obscure but technically excellent format, you can check out NestedText.
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A Nigthtmare called YML
I recently came to appreciate and favor an alternative format called NestedText. Like YAML, indentation is used for structure, so like YAML, you may hate it.
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nt2: a CLI converter between NestedText and JSON, YAML, or TOML
I recently discovered NestedText, and really appreciate the design. To me, it hits the nail on the head where projects like strictyaml and hjson come very close.
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YAML: It's Time to Move On
I'm glad to see people experimenting with alternative document/object representations, but this one might be a hard sell: based on the README[1], it only has Python, Zig and Janet implementations so far. One of the nice things about YAML (and JSON, TOML, etc.) is that they have decently mature C, C++, or Rust libraries that other languages bind to.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing strictyaml and nestedtext you can also consider the following projects:
pyyaml - Canonical source repository for PyYAML
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
crudini - A utility for manipulating ini files
sublime-json5 - JSON5 support for Sublime Text
yaml-rust - A pure rust YAML implementation.
starlark-go - Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
hjson-js - Hjson for JavaScript
node-convict - Featureful configuration management library for Node.js
validator - Simple validation for Rust structs
cson - CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.
confuse - painless YAML config files for Python