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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by heikkiket@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
 

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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[โ€“] lehenry@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think TOML should replace YAML for config files, it is much clearer, easier to parse for a human.

[โ€“] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on the data structure. If you want to save a table of sorts, you're getting a bunch of unreadable [[[]]] nonsense.

For flat structures it's great though.