I used to think json was the best until I found json lines or line delimited json. Thank me later. I use it all the time. You can append until you’re blue in the face. It’s great for log files. Each line is a valid json file.

It’s docs are garbage, but the language is quite simple and human readable even for non-techies. I think it’s a bit too easy at times, resulting in people just kinda winging it

Somehow it’s clunky to use.

huh?

I find developing GitHub CI in YAML clunky.

I don’t find configuring a simple service via YAML config, with a preset showing me and explaining what I can do clunky.

We all know it sucks. I have no idea why people use it instead of anything else. My workday is jammed with fucking ansible which, while also being so ghetto that we were easily doing more with less in 2002, uses So.much.fucking.yaml . Just when you think ansible couldn’t get more clunky and useless and slow, it also is configured in yaml.