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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't hate YAML, but it has the same issues languages like PHP and JS introduce...there are unexpected corner cases that only exist because the designer wanted the language to be "friendly"

https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sorry, what's confusing the fact that "Hi my name is {$this->name}" works and "Hi my name is {self::name}" is unintelligible gibberish! /s