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I never understood how YAML is more human-readable than JSON. I find JSON much easier to read. What annoys me the most about YAML is that it's easy to misinterpret the indentation. You need a special IDE to know whether a property belongs to a specific object or to its parent.

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> I never understood how YAML is more human-readable than JSON

Two things: comments and multi-line strings.

My personal JSON Pet hate is: ``` x = [ "Foo", "Foo2", ] ``` Is not valid, but the following is: ``` x = [ "Foo", "Foo2" ] ``` Makes dealing with packer configs feel like punching yourself in the face.

I still prefer it over YAMLs awkward initial learning curve.

At first I found it really annoying but then the more I thought about it the more I came to value the "," semantics as proper validation for a "forgot to put the last element in the list" error which would otherwise be silently hidden via the parser.

So your comment is vaild. Having strict and not-strict validation would be a nice compromise though (:

What? No you don't. You don't need a special IDE any more than you need a special IDE to know if a Python statement is in an "if" block or a parent "if" block.

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