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People actually bike shed over .yaml vs .yml? If you thought tabs vs spaces was a useless debate...

Never been comfortable with extension names longer than 3 letters long for some reason..

MS-DOS. The reason is MS-DOS.

Thank you for the EXPLAN~1!

If anyone's curious this references the 8.3 filename shortening that windows was even still doing recently.

Amusingly, that tiny bit of backward compatibility can lead to vulnerabilities as outlined here: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-fil...

It goes back further than that - DOS got the idea of 8.3 filenames from CP/M and before that DEC used three letter file extensions on its minicomputer operating systems. The idea arguably goes back even further into the mainframes of the 1960s although it gets a bit messier then to trace it.

All I'm saying mate, is that we don't pronounce it Yiml now, do we. :D

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