Re:Systemd Home Directories
by 0xffff2 on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:33AM
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> It's easy to write code that reads and writes it.
This is where you lose me. AFAICT, no two YAML parsers agree on what YAML is, so it's actually very hard to write code that reads and writes YAML because it has to be carefully tailored to work with whatever other YAML parsers are in your toolchain.
Re:Systemd Home Directories
by jrockway on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:50AM
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I agree that you won't end up with a compatible data structure in every language, but you can read it in and write out a semantically-identical document, which is nice.
This is where you lose me. AFAICT, no two YAML parsers agree on what YAML is, so it's actually very hard to write code that reads and writes YAML because it has to be carefully tailored to work with whatever other YAML parsers are in your toolchain.