I was thinking earlier today that with Rails slowly (quickly?) infiltrating the Enterprise, maybe we’ll start seeing more YAML in places where XML is currently used.
Disclaimer: I’m not saying that XML will, or even should, go away. But there’s a reason YAML is used; it’s simple. For simple documents, a language as (potentially) rich as XML might not be needed.
Maybe this time next year we’ll see Java and YAML sitting on the shelf next to Java and XML.
Which led me to ask myself: why not a YAML-based syndication feed?
One possible answer is, with RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and ATOM… do we really want Yet Another Syndication Format?
A quick search just revealed The Okay Project, which I found, predictably enough, at whytheluckystiff.net. I might have guessed that. It’s not specifically a syndication feed standard, but it seems to encompass that idea.
I’m interested.
