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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 83 points 1 week ago (39 children)

Any language in which whitespace has syntactic value is intrinsically flawed.

Can't speak to your specific issues, but that's why yaml will always suck.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (29 children)

As a serialization format, agree 100%, but would Python really be better if it switched to braces?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If nothing else it enforces readable code which I think is a good thing.

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