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Human-Oriented Markup Language
HUML is a simple, strict, serialization language for documents, datasets, and configuration.
HUML was primarily born out of the numerous frustrations with YAML, where one easy-to-miss, accidental indentation change can dangerously alter the semantics of a document. JSON is universal, but lacks comments, does not have a strict form for consistent readability across contexts, and has bracket-matching and formatting woes which make human editing difficult. HUML looks like YAML, but borrows characteristics from many existing languages with the primary focus on enforcing human readability and consistency across contexts.
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