The article discusses the challenge of 'respectful' YAML patching in Rust, which aims to preserve both formatting and comments when programmatically modifying YAML files. It evaluates several Rust crates that claim to support comment preservation, highlighting the limitations of popular general-purpose YAML libraries like serde_yaml and yaml-rust2 in this regard.
Background
YAML is a human-readable data serialization language commonly used for configuration files. Preserving formatting and comments during programmatic modification is important for maintaining readability and context in version-controlled files.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- May 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10