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I largely agree but then I enter the modern ops stack where templated yaml is the lingua franca. It’s incomprehensible and for each system you are operating yo
by kasey_junk 8y ago
I largely agree but then I enter the modern ops stack where templated yaml is the lingua franca.
It’s incomprehensible and for each system you are operating you have to learn some arcane yaml incantations that have dramatic impact on your production systems. It’s a world crying out for a set of well factored dsl.
- discreteevent 8y agoBetter than a dsl would just be a mature general purpose programming language with tooling etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19108787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19108787
- mpweiher 8y agoOr a general purpose language with the ability do describe architectural configurations?
- nmadden 8y agoI think this is what Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com https://www.pulumi.com) is trying to achieve.
- grok2 8y agoSomething like Dhall you mean? https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang