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Why YAML sucks?
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
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Any language in which whitespace has syntactic value is intrinsically flawed.
Can't speak to your specific issues, but that's why yaml will always suck.
As a serialization format, agree 100%, but would Python really be better if it switched to braces?
To be pendantic, it's level of indentation in Python that has semantic meaning, not whitespace.
The end of line also has semantic meaning. Both indentation and eol are whitespace.
Indentation can be (and should be) tabs, EOL is it's its own thing either \n or CRLF which Python source code did actually care about as recently as 2.3.
Assumptions like this is why most people should stick to verbose languages with lots of guardrail braces.