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Why YAML sucks? (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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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The misleading behavior is about what you expect to execute in the source code you're looking at vs what's actually executed.

What you describe is a logic ambiguity that can happen in any program / language.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I don’t agree. It’s a direct result of whitespace, which does not happen if you don’t use whitespace. For example it can happen in Java and kotlin, but only if you use if statements without braces, which you pretty much never see. If you do see it you know to look out for the exact issue I described. That’s not possible in Python, since there is no alternative.

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