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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] atzanteol 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus, just what I want to do with the devops team - spend a few weeks standardizing on an editor and configuring them to edit yaml.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A few weeks? How do you stay employed? How do you even feed yourself at that pace? Blocked on making a sandwich, I've got the wrong type of bread.

It's three lines in an editor config file to standardize the indents across any editor: https://editorconfig.org/

In vscode, adding two extensions is all I need:, yamllint (if you don't use linters, I don't know how you do your job in any language) and rainbow indents. Atom had similar ones. I'm sure all IDEs are capable of these things. If you work at a place that forces you to use a specific editor and limits the way you can use it, that's not YAML's fault.

At a certain point, it's your deficiencies that make a language difficult, not the language's. Don't blame your hammer when you haven't heated the iron.

[–] atzanteol 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know how many editor plugins I need to work with json? None.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You want an award? I hate working with JSON without a prettier.