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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (23 children)

Strong competition from yaml and json on this point however

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Alright, the YAML spec is a dang mess, that I'll grant you, but it seems pretty easy for my human eyes to read and write. As for JSON -- seriously? That's probably the easiest to parse human-readable structured data format there is!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

My biggest gripe is that human eyes cannot in fact see invisible coding characters such as tabs and spaces. I cannot abide by python for the same reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can set those things to be visible in many editors. Its ugly tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Until you're doing an online course in a simplistic web editor. Don't ask me how I know 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How do you... Oh sorry

But yeah that sounds unpleasant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The language should just let me specify which character I want for that. I would use ">".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That'd be an editor thing rather than a language thing, I would have thought. It's probably configurable in some

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It would be a compiler directive, I think. Or let me type "end if" and just disregard the coding indentation

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