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If it was code, an indentation error would often not compile or show errors or fail tests.
Configuration in YAML is much worse: most of the time an indentation error goes undetected until an application starts misbehaving.
Significant whitespace is perfectly ok for code but a huge footgun for YAML
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If it was code, an indentation error would often not compile or show errors or fail tests.
Configuration in YAML is much worse: most of the time an indentation error goes undetected until an application starts misbehaving.
Significant whitespace is perfectly ok for code but a huge footgun for YAML