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?

  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    To paraphrase: There are two kinds of markup languages. Those that people complain about and those that nobody uses.

    There is no silver bullet that will work perfectly for all use cases and we also don’t want to use 100 different tools. So people use things that aren’t perfect. But they’re good enough. I don’t think YAML is perfect and I still use it, because people know it and there are tons of tools already available.