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.

[–] softwarist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think YAML has its fair share of design flaws, but I don't think significant indentation is one of them. It may not be a programming language (which may be debatable), but there are plenty that use syntactic whitespace.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's not debatable... You linked to a programming language that uses yaml syntax, that didn't make yaml itself a programming language... It's not.

And I know there are plenty that use syntactic whitespace, and I hate that about all of them. Literally my only real frustration with python is due to the time of my life wasted debugging perfectly fine logic that fails because a few lines had incorrect indentation.