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A box of DevOps (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is definitely a failing of yaml. Though, I feel that generally it's the sort of thing you learn once the hard way, then it sticks with you pretty well.

Also I'm glad there are more anti-toml folks are out there, feels like I'm taking crazy pills when people say it is "simple" and "elegant". IMO it's uglier than old-school ini format - at least it's more strictly defined but that doesn't really sway me to convert

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

Which is better for structured data?

  • elegant, human readable, indentation sensitive language that's great for deep nesting but has some weird idiosyncrasies with some dynamically typed parsers being too smart for their own good
  • glorified ini

The choice is clear

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

TOML isn't elegant at all but damn, it is really simple.

[–] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

If by simple you mean "can't count from 1 to 10 in a loop" and by elegant you mean "easier to understand than a one line perl script" then sure...