> It’s just too error-prone, there’s too many things… You just have to always quote everything.
Sorry, but this seems like a very silly, petty argument. There are other reasons to not like today's pervasive use of YAML, but this is not a very compelling one imo.
The same is true in XML, practically speaking, there just isn't another option - everything must be quoted or wrapped in tags.
So just ... use quotes in YAML. You can force it through a linter [0] if the optionality is what you're hung up on.
Sorry, but this seems like a very silly, petty argument. There are other reasons to not like today's pervasive use of YAML, but this is not a very compelling one imo.
The same is true in XML, practically speaking, there just isn't another option - everything must be quoted or wrapped in tags.
So just ... use quotes in YAML. You can force it through a linter [0] if the optionality is what you're hung up on.
[0] https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rules.html#module-...