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YAML is whitespace sensitive, that alone is a nightmare.
by iampims 8y ago
YAML is whitespace sensitive, that alone is a nightmare.
- nixpulvis 8y agoYes, as someone who helps with some software with a YAML config, the whitespace issue has caused much time in IRC spent trading pastebins fixing these. I agree overall YAML looks pretty nice, and consistent whitespace is a strong preference (I have pre-commit hooks), breaking user (if you have them) config if they don't know about this is an issue tho.
- the_imp 8y agoDo note that in addition to block collections, YAML also supports the flow collections of JSON, which are not whitespace sensitive. In fact, YAML 1.2 is a superset of JSON, and you can parse JSON with # comments as entirely valid YAML.