YAML Considered Harmful
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Argument: YAML's syntax silently misparses things (unquoted times become base-60 port parsing, many aliases make "no" a boolean false, unquoted nulls vanish). Real-world cost appears in GitLab CI: a repo uses 1100 lines of YAML plus 400 lines of Bash behind a single job, showing YAML becomes a glue DSL that hides real scripts. Helm templating intensifies indentation and templating bugs. Recommendation: treat YAML as data only, quote strings, and stop using it as a programming language.
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