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It is very cool, specifically as a human readable mark down / data format.
The fact that you can make anything a tag and it's going to be valid and you can nest stuff, is amazing.
But with a niche use case.
Clearly the tags waste space if you're actually saving them all the time.
Good format to compress though...
YAML for human-written files, JSON for back-to-front and protobuf for back-to-back. XML is an abomination.
YAML is good for files that have a very flexible structure or need to define a series of steps. Like github workflows or docker-compose files. For traditional config files with a more or less fixed structure, TOML is better I think
Having an easy on the eyes markdown that is also easy to parse would be cool.
But YAML does these things:
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
which are not excusable, for any reason.