Re:Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation
by falcolas on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:56AM
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YAML is markup in the same way that XML and JSON are markup. All three are methods of serializing data into text documents.
It also offers several advantages over JSON, in that it can also store and sanely represent relational data, has support for comments built into all YAML parsers, and it can be used to represent data structures that don't fall into the list/hash map paradigm.
It also offers several advantages over JSON, in that it can also store and sanely represent relational data, has support for comments built into all YAML parsers, and it can be used to represent data structures that don't fall into the list/hash map paradigm.