Spreadsheets are a UI view of tabular structured data with terrible kludges to fake hashes, with no real support for tree structures and heterogenous data structure hierarchies. And if the API you’re using is complex, namespaced XML because vendors, UI tends to obscure more than help.

Postman and the like are expensive intermediate abstractions between you and the underlying calls that I find a hindrance. For end users, forms can help, but even then you have to choose between something so generalized to effectively be a DSL like the old XForms spec or else build separate bespoke forms for each use case.

I’ve seen this so many more times from Microsoft than anywhere else. They even tried reinventing a regex syntax just for their IDE!

That was my point, yes, but I was replying to @ZoteTheMighty@midwest.social’s suggestion that “all yaml is just sparkling json”.

That’s a long way from all or most YAML being JSON-compatible. I wonder if more YAML files in the wild parse as Markdown than JSON.

Does your viewer/editor not show space chars or indent levels?

How do you figure?

I’ve never understood the frustration over magic variables. It’s always sounded similar to the complaints about var declarations when people are used to explicit type declarations. Verbosity like that just reads as attenuating noise to me.