Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode?

[Romanos Skiadas <rom.skiad@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

I was using yaml-ts-mode in Emacs 30, and to my surprise I found it
inherits from text-mode.

Now, a case can be made for that for sure. The existing rather widely used
mode uses text-mode, although that seems like an arbitrary decision by a
single maintainer:
https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/17
https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/27
https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/52
https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/pull/85

(I'm not sure Emacs maintainers are beholden to a decision made some jumps
away and whether this is a strong enough argument to keep yaml-ts-mode as
is.)

However, and here is where things kind of break down a bit: I would
personally argue that YAML has a code feel to it, what with all the bash
scripts that end up in it. Personally, I feel that YAML is more of a prog
language than JSON (whatever that means), and according to the spec it is a
superset of JSON. In fact, the JSON mode shipped with Emacs inherits from
prog-mode!

So, what do people think? Should yaml-ts-mode be changed?

Best,
rski

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