Have you seen the kind of "config files" YAML is being used nowadays? Gitlab CI, Ansible, Saltstack, various low-code tools... It's no better than a scripting l

Have you seen the kind of "config files" YAML is being used nowadays? Gitlab CI, Ansible, Saltstack, various low-code tools... It's no better than a scripting language, because it turns out if what you need is to encode logic and control flow, you can't get away from it by shouting "DECLARATIVE" and pretending the problems don't exist. Pretty much all of these complex tools that use YAML don't use it for declarative purposes, but as a kind of hybrid AST/DSL. You're not avoiding anything except for maybe the need to parse a proper language.