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goatinaboat on Sept 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kubernetes YAML Generator

JSON is easier to grok.

For anything non-trivial you will want inline comments.

Also while any JSON can be expressed in YAML, the reverse is not true.

reificator on Sept 9, 2020 [–]

> For anything non-trivial you will want inline comments.

Yes, JSON needs comment support back.

> Also while any JSON can be expressed in YAML, the reverse is not true.

This is a feature not a bug.

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