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.

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I loathe YAML (and Python for that matter). Anything that uses whitespace as syntax is a problem. The exception is Whitespace, it gets a pass for being hilarious.

    I couldn’t agree more with you though - it’s a problem with the tool. If it doesn’t support tabs that’s not my problem, and if the language used whitespace for style instead of syntax everything would still work fine.