Why YAML sucks?

posted 4 months ago

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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Kissaki@programming.dev

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4 months ago

Somehow it’s clunky to use.

huh?

I find developing GitHub CI in YAML clunky.

I don’t find configuring a simple service via YAML config, with a preset showing me and explaining what I can do clunky.

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