this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
62 points (73.8% liked)

Programming

17705 readers
169 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe
Ategon
[email protected]
62
Why YAML sucks? (self.programming)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by heikkiket to c/programming
145 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

YAML mixes 2 and 4 spaces all the time. Python scripts don't run if you write this kind of crap.

Sure it does. You only need to be consistent within a block. Python's syntax is ridiculous and solves problems that basically don't exist.

All of my java/kotlin/rust/etc. code is trivially well formatted and can be done by my editor. Moving code blocks is trivial. Refactoring is easier when I didn't need to hand -format the code just to make it work.