@lanodan @p @NonPlayableClown

> I feel like having a yaml2json program, sticking to JSON, and hope the program which dealt YAML on me won't need special YAML semantics.

I feel the same way about HTML vs XHTML. At least the latter encouraged consistent syntax and wouldn't render if the ML wasn't 100% correct. So developers were forced to do it right or not at all. Validators even complain now if you write HTML5 with XHTML syntax (eg. using <br/> vs <br>). If languages don't force developers to use best-practices, more often than not, they won't, and it becomes a shit show overnight.

My love for YAML really started with Perl's Test Anything Protocol. If other languages had have adopted that universally, it would have made test driven dev a lot less pain in the ass imo. To it's credit TAP uses only a very limited subset of the spec. I have to agree that realistically the full YAML spec is kind of an everything AND the kitchen sink sorta deal.