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title: "Why are you using YAML for the configuration file?"
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date: 2017-06-18 09:00
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And not JSON or XML for the [configuration file](/docs/configuration/)? Because [YAML](/docs/configuration/yaml/) can be written by hand, you don't have to care about commas or tag and it's a superset of JSON.