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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 8 hours ago

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.