I never could get Nix working but maybe someone will

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      6 hours ago

      Careful. The yaml cult will come after you in a long and formless column, and only self destruct when one of them is a step too far to the left.

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      11 hours ago
      what:
        is:
        your:
          - problem
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            YAML
      # At least you can have comments unlike in json. Who need comments in a config file anyway.
      
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        Nothing too major about how it’s usually used, but the yaml spec does allow arbitrary code execution when parsing a file and relies on the parser to have that feature disabled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Security

        That’s why for python, yaml.save_load() is a thing. That’s fine for your local config files and may even be a feature for you, but it shouldn’t be used to exchange information between services.

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          8 hours ago

          My general view is similar, yaml is better if it should be written by humans, json is better if it should be written and read only by a machine. but hyprspace uses json for configuration, so I don’t really understand cellardoor’s comment

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            8 hours ago

            Yeah I agree. Although recently I’ve become partial to toml… In the end I’ll use what’s common in the ecosystem I’m developing in