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Re:Bugs in the YAML specification by techdragon on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:41PM (#12427268)
In my experience, YAML is what people turn to when they want something like JSON, but don't want to have to type the extra braces and quotation marks.
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Re:Bugs in the YAML specification by untog on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:15PM (#12427377)
That's certainly my use case. Things like easy multi-line strings make it very useful, and readable by less tech-inclined folks. Though for that audience ArchieML is better still:

http://archieml.org

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