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Or you know they could just write a library in a real programming language instead of forcing people to write YAML. Don't quite get the fascination with YAML. G
by dkarapetyan 10y ago
Or you know they could just write a library in a real programming language instead of forcing people to write YAML. Don't quite get the fascination with YAML. Give me actual fucking syntax instead of some bastardized serialization format that is badly trying to ape lisp.
- camus2 10y agothe issue is as soon as you introduce a scripting language in a solution, people will write monstrosities with that. A configuration format guarantees that configuration will stay simple and "readable". I agree that LISP should be used more often though.
- dkarapetyan 10y agoI have now seen enough deployments of puppet, salt, ansible, etc. to last me a lifetime and then some. Trust me. People have managed to turn configuration formats into unreadable monstrosities as well. At least with a real programming language I would have sensible debugging capabilities and maybe some refactoring tools to help but with a half-baked YAML programming language I have no such recourse.