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How Yaml of all things became so popular is a mystery to me. I am guessing the primary selling point is that it's sort of human readable similar to Markdown bu
by kristiandupont 3y ago
How Yaml of all things became so popular is a mystery to me.
I am guessing the primary selling point is that it's sort of human readable similar to Markdown but even that (in fact, especially that) falls short when a configuration is more than just 5 lines, in my opinion. Trying to figure out which bullet this sub-bullet belongs to by holding my finger on the screen while scrolling is not an improved experience. And don't even get me started on the clever type system.
- sangnoir 3y ago> Trying to figure out which bullet this sub-bullet belongs to by holding my finger on the screen while scrolling is not an improved experience I don't see this as any worse than figuring out where nested parentheses are closed: tooling helps. I'm almost certain there's a whitespace plugin equivalent of Rainbow Parentheses for your IDE/editor of choice
- kristiandupont 3y agoYes, tooling helps, though I am not always in my IDE. And I agree that it shouldn't be worse than, say, JSON, but for one reason or another my brain seems to struggle with it just a bit more. It certainly does not seem like an improvement, which I feel is implied.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoIndentation guide are available on most editors.
- taspeotis 3y agoYelling At My Laptop
- drewcoo 3y ago> How Yaml of all things became so popular is a mystery to me. Well . . . the Perl folks, I think, came up with something less pointy than XML. And we all appreciated that because we'd all poked ourselves with XML too many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML