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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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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago

Because people over use it. YAML is pretty good for short config files that need to be human readable but it falls apart with complex multi line strings and escaping.

I think there are much better clearly delimited for machine reading purposes formats out there that you should prefer if you're writing a really heavy config file and, tbh, I think for everything else .ini is probably "good enough".

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 28 points 1 month ago

At least use TOML if you like ini, there is no ini spec but TOML can look quite similar.

[-] gsfraley@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Strong agree. It's also the absolute best at expressing really long documents of configuration/data.

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