From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-11T01:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Protocols

On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:35 pm, jbritt@ruby-doc.org wrote:
>
> What would using YAML-RPC instead of XML-RPC buy you?  Is it faster?  More
> stable? Are there more implementations in assorted languages?
>

The payload is definitely smaller.  The parser isn't faster, though.  And the 
!okay/rpc spec is still in development.

> I can understand why some people prefer hand-editing YAML over XML, but
> when used as a wire format the ease-of-editing factor becomes less
> important.

I love using YAML as RPC, simply because of the ease-of-editing factor.  I can 
edit my blog entries as YAML in Vim and then save to the RPC server.  I don't 
have to write a GUI or a browser interface.

If you're talking machine-to-machine then I see no real advantages, except 
that YAML can handle more of Ruby's native types.

_why