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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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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

it does what it needs to do: i don't think it's necessarily bad.

it's for data not programming and it handles complex structures cleaner than json

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 8 points 3 months ago

My issue with it arises when data is not interpreted as I expected, like because of weird white space issues for example.

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