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Hey there's some healthy skepticism about YAML on zola's side. In particular, the maintainer believes encouraging people to use a broken/dangerous (in terms of remote-code execution in some implementations) serialization format is not a good idea, even though Rust YAML parser is safe from that.

There's also a concern for maintenance: maintaining the zola codebase to support more serialization formats is more work. If more contributors get involved regularly, it will be less of a problem.

In fact, zola started supporting YAML frontmatter for compatibility reasons lately, but it's explicitly stated in the docs this is not the recommended/supported way to do things.




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