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New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. (nmn.gl)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and I see it when I'm forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won't learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember.

Feels like this is the attitude towards programming in general nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

To be fair, YAML sucks. It's a config language that someone thought should cover everything, but excel at nothing.

Just use TOML, JSON, or old-school INI. YAML will just give you an aneurism. Use the best tool for the job, which is often not the prettiest one.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Kids these days with their fancy stuff, you don't need all that to write good software. YAML is the quintessential "jack of all trades, master of none" nonsense. It's a config file, just make it easy to parse and document how to edit it. That's it.