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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by heikkiket@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
 

I feel that Yaml sucks. I understand the need for such markup language but I think it sucks. Somehow it's clunky to use. Can you explain why?

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be pendantic, it's level of indentation in Python that has semantic meaning, not whitespace.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The end of line also has semantic meaning. Both indentation and eol are whitespace.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Indentation can be (and should be) tabs, EOL is it's its own thing either \n or CRLF which Python source code did actually care about as recently as 2.3.

Assumptions like this is why most people should stick to verbose languages with lots of guardrail braces.