I never quite understood this attitude. Not treating whitespace as meaningful means it's necessary to have a longer, syntactically noisier file. That's fine if

I never quite understood this attitude. Not treating whitespace as meaningful means it's necessary to have a longer, syntactically noisier file. That's fine if you're primarily concerned with computers exchanging data (JSON) but where readability and writability matters, extra syntactic weight is a headache. I can't imagine writing JSON by hand but I write plenty of YAML by hand every day without issues.