It is SO STUPID that spaces are widely preferred for indentation in code.
For the past, I don’t know, two hours I’ve been trying to fix YAML formatting issues that could have been fixed without any human intervention if only tabs were used. (It’s a big file, hence the duration.) (I know YAML doesn’t support tabs. That’s kind of my point.)
I even reluctantly asked Gemini (forced upon me by work; I was hoping it would change my mind in this case) why anyone would prefer spaces. It said the same irrelevant thing most people say: because some tools don’t support tabs properly.
Know what that sounds like to me? A problem with the fucking tool.
I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but I can’t think of a better option.
I agree on indentation as delimiter being stupid for a PROGRAMMING language, but for markup/data serialisation languages that are primarily meant to be human readable, it is a great solution.
Syntax can be your delimiter, and white space done how the human sees fit. That’s the proper solution, imo
Yeah well you’re wrong.
Braces help everyone, just like punctuation does. Try and read a Cormack McCarthy novel and the importance of punctuation to denote structure for readability will become immediately apparent.
Using whitespace as a delimiter is just nerds min maxing too far.
Relax, this is clearly a subjective matter.
Lemmy is a niche of a niche. People can’t relax around here.
Some people are just so incredibly “AKQCSHUALLY” about certain things. And they don’t even see that there’s no right or wrong, it’s just your use case vs mine. Narrow-minded af.
PEOPLE CAN’T RELAX???
I don’t know, I’ve never found Python structure remotely hard to read
Except when some chucklehead used two character intents. This is why tabs are superior; if you want to be squinty, be squinty. The rest of us get 8 char intents that make the logic easy to see.
A novel by definition isn’t a data structure meant for serialisation. Your argument is akin to going up to a mapmaker and telling them do to their job different because van Gogh did it different and look how his art turned out!
Braces in a data structure help nobody but computers. That’s why I specified that for HUMAN READABILITY, YAML is superior to JSON, even though they easily translate between each other. Try to read a single-line, optimised for transport JSON vs try to read a neatly formatted YAML document. YAML is inherently closer to how humans perceive data.