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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by heikkiket@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Haskell supports both semantic whitespace and explicit delimiters, and somehow almost everybody that uses the language disagrees with you.

But anyway, for all the problems of YAML, this one isn't even relevant enough to point out. Even if you agree it's a problem. (And I agree that the YAML semantic whitespace is horrible.) If YAML was a much better language, it would be worth arguing whether semantic whitespace breaks it or not.

[โ€“] hex@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah but Haskell is mostly used by mathematicians..