Because yaml is not a programming language, and debugging why your whatever you’re configuring isn’t working correctly can be a nightmare. It doesn’t tell you you missed an indent on a block, it just assumes it should be there and changes the meaning.
Significant white-space is bullshit and i will die on this hill.
You are not alone, my friend
You’re going to indent your code anyway, so why not let the indentation carry meaning?
Because I am not counting white space when I read. Or should we just write machine code/assembler/pick something straight away?
Because yaml is not a programming language, and debugging why your whatever you’re configuring isn’t working correctly can be a nightmare. It doesn’t tell you you missed an indent on a block, it just assumes it should be there and changes the meaning.
Braces are visually clear.
Is there space left on the hill? I want to join you.
I hear there’s significant space left
But it’s only white space. That’s kinda racist.
significant white space to it’s classist and racist
Their whole thing is that they don’t want to care about it, so if you get to the hill and there’s no space, you’re SOL.
Yeah I just want JSON with optionally quoted keys, and comments.
Commas (at least the trailing ones), comments, and nothing else. JSON with type inference seems like an incredibly bad idea…
JSON5 my beloved
Preach!