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Re:Why are we templating YAML? by crdoconnor on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:10PM (#19109100)
I never quite understood this attitude. Not treating whitespace as meaningful means it's necessary to have a longer, syntactically noisier file.

That's fine if you're primarily concerned with computers exchanging data (JSON) but where readability and writability matters, extra syntactic weight is a headache.

I can't imagine writing JSON by hand but I write plenty of YAML by hand every day without issues.

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Re:Why are we templating YAML? by quickthrower2 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:11PM (#19110833)
Because deleting a tab could entirely change the meaning of the file, breaking everything, with no compile time errors. IDE tooling or linting might go somewhat to make me more comfortable with YAML.
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