[Python-ideas] PEP 426, YAML in the stdlib and implementation discovery

[Philipp A.]

2013/5/31 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > So yaml is not going to end up in the stdlib. The format is not used
> > widely enough to warrant being added nor have to maintain a parser for
> > such a complicated format.
>
> Hm. What makes you think it's not being used widely enough? I suppose
> JSON is more popular, but it's not like YAML is dying. AFAIK there's a
> 3rd party yaml parser that we could incorporate with its authors'
> permission -- this would save people from a pretty common dependency
> (just like we did for JSON).
>

i think ruby created its own reality here: yaml wasn’t popular because it
wasn’t in the stdlib, and became popular as soon as it was. its advantages
as arguably most human-writable serialization format helped here. at least
that’s my interpretation.
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