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[–] softwarist@programming.dev -2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You're going to indent your code anyway, so why not let the indentation carry meaning?

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Because I am not counting white space when I read. Or should we just write machine code/assembler/pick something straight away?

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

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.