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AI's take on XML (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (17 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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

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