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Why YAML sucks?

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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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xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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They may be obvious to the reader but they may be impossible to see if tabs and spaces are mixed together.

Closing tokens are always clearer.

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Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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yes, from my other comment

the only mistake of Python when it comes to whitespaces was allowing hard tabs

but that’s easily fixed with an editor setting - on the other hand, unbalancing braces (and not realizing it) is too easy all the time.

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