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...from people who seem to refuse to install paredit or coloring plugins for either? ps lisp syntax ftw, it's a feature!

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A property can have the wrong indentation and it would still be a syntactically correct yaml. It’s hard to distinguish whether a line is wrongly indented or not. Copy and paste a line and mistakenly use the wrong indentation, and the entire production breaks.

In json it’s much harder to do similar mistakes.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think TOML found a pleasant compromise there

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

It’s hard to distinguish whether a line is wrongly indented or not.

That’s very much not my experience. I use YAML regularly and while I’ve had copy paste indentation errors when I look at the offending line it’s always obvious to me how to fix the indentation. The only indentation thing that’s ever given me trouble is embedding YAML as a string within a file that uses tabs.