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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 35 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Python developer: LOL. LMAO

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[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 5 days ago (12 children)

as a fellow Python user, I fucking hate significant whitespace. Also YAML. WTF they where thinking

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[–] TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.org 24 points 5 days ago (1 child)

There were plenty of blanks in their thoughts.

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[–] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

You could even say they had plenty of space in their heads.

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[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

I will take YAML's string blocks where I don't have to escape special characters over JSON any day.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago*

I will take a hammer to my balls if it means I never have to use <![CDATA[ again.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago

It's to make students actually format their code correctly

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[–] esc@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They are alright, yaml problems are overblown, significant whitespace as well.

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[–] we_need_more_dwellings@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

Whitespaces are not problem at all. But YAML values parsing rules, uh boy...

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[–] esc@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

There is pyyaml, probably other libraries, that take the pain away.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago*

...that modern systems should stop sucking at parsing leading whitespaces.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago*

I don't really have a solution for the whitespace issue, but you could always switch to TOML

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago*

Significant whitespace is the best! I don't understand why so many people have issues with it.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 point 5 days ago

Fussy.

~~DWIM~~

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[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

Python is the jazz of programming languages. It's about the characters you don't type.

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[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Don't worry, I'm a Java dev, and I'll replace the whitespace in my indentations with semicolons. That should keep us sufficiently covered with semicolon usage.

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