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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by heikkiket@programming.dev to c/programming@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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[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Can people stop hating on shit?

FOR FUCKS SAKE, negative reinforcement dopamine has RUINED THE FUCKING NET.

EVERYWHERE I GO there's someone bitching about something, hate circlejerks are unbelievably popular, people just love to hate on stuff.

You're ruining your thought patterns with all these social media negativity bullshit.

Fucking TOML users hate on fucking YAML fucking C++ users hate Rust fucking Rust users hate literally everything under the sun and are insufferable to work with

EVERYONE, fucking CHILL

[–] beaumains@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yeah TBH I like yaml. Sure its not the best ever, but its not the worst it could possibly be.

For config its not terrible. For ansible playbooks its again... not terrible.

Why is everyone always hating on something which is just kinda mid.

[–] SandLight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dream of a life where I use YAML but all my configs are stuck in XML. People can complain but there's always worse options.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

One nice thing about XML is that there's an official way to link to the schema from within the document. If you do that you can easily automatically validate it, and even better you get fantastic IDE support via Red Hat's LSP server. Live validation, hover for keys, etc.

It's a really nice experience and JSON schema can't really match it.

That said, XML just has the wrong data model for 99% of use cases.

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