despite the readability of the yaml syntax, for me the big disadvantage is the inability to use meta / type info.
for a straightforward collection of strings: probably good enough, for anything else xml is more likely to cover the usecase better
for a straightforward collection of strings: probably good enough, for anything else xml is more likely to cover the usecase better
For example
start: !date 2020-09-12
could actually map to a native date object.