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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Amador Pahim <apahim@redhat.com>, Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 05:17:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/04/2018 16:42, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> Should we introduce yet another markup language into QEMU?  (pardon the
> >> pun).
> > Fair question.  What are the existing markup languages in QEMU we
> > could use?
> > 
> > JSON is an option, but I believe YAML is more readable.
> 
> Isn't YAML actually a superset of JSON that adds "magic indent", bullet
> lists and a bunch of other stuff that you're not using?  You can still
> use JSON to express a complicated dictionary for example.

Things I like about YAML in comparison to JSON:
- Comments
- No need to count number of closing brackets or worry about
  trailing commas
- Convenient ways to write long strings without
  "\\"another layer of escaping syntax\\""

JSON is not a language for humans, YAML is.

-- 
Eduardo