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?

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
    8616·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      2 years ago

      YAML sucks because, among other things, indenting it is not obvious.

      In contrast, the only mistake of Python when it comes to whitespaces was allowing hard tabs, which makes it too easy to mix them if your editor is not configured.

      Improper indentation stands out more than missing or unbalanced braces and it’s really not an issue to delimit code blocks.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      93·
      2 years ago

      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.