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I, on the other hand, find it much harder to read and write even in very simple configs. I never know what the indent is supposed to be, I just press my spaceba

I, on the other hand, find it much harder to read and write even in very simple configs. I never know what the indent is supposed to be, I just press my spacebar until my editor stops complaining. I find it really hard to tell if a line is a new entry or a subset of the parent entry. I'm sure if I used it more it'd become easier, but my whole team doesn't understand it either. Luckily we only need it for GitHub configurations.

basil-rash 3y ago
YAML is (vaguely) a superset of JSON, so you can just use JSON (without tabs) and get your life back. I don’t need a config language with no fewer that 6 subtly different ways of decoding a string to remember, and certainly not one with a spec longer than C’s. Compare to JSON’s, which (famously) fits on a postcard. https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ https://yaml-multiline.info/ https://yaml-multiline.info/ https://www.json.org/json-en.html https://www.json.org/json-en.html