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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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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 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.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (29 children)

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Yes it would - look at optional braces for short if expressions in C family languages and why it's so discouraged in large projects. Terminating characters are absolutely worth the cost of an extra LoC

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm fine with python, because it's consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.

goto fail;

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