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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

YAML sucks because, among other things, indenting it is not obvious.

In contrast, the only mistake of Python when it comes to whitespaces was allowing hard tabs, which makes it too easy to mix them if your editor is not configured.

Improper indentation stands out more than missing or unbalanced braces and it's really not an issue to delimit code blocks.