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Why YAML sucks? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel that Yaml sucks. I understand the need for such markup language but I think it sucks. Somehow it's clunky to use. Can you explain why?

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[–] cashew 1 points 2 months ago

Abstractions aren't concrete and all of these standards you're referring to are concrete data serialisations. You may be interested in CUE which captures this concept in its design.