Why YAML sucks? - eviltoast

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?

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    YAML mixes 2 and 4 spaces all the time. Python scripts don’t run if you write this kind of crap.

    Sure it does. You only need to be consistent within a block. Python’s syntax is ridiculous and solves problems that basically don’t exist.

    All of my java/kotlin/rust/etc. code is trivially well formatted and can be done by my editor. Moving code blocks is trivial. Refactoring is easier when I didn’t need to hand -format the code just to make it work.