>it never occurred to me that it could be used for configs. It can't be. Using "markdown" for config really means building a shitty ad hoc configuration langua

>it never occurred to me that it could be used for configs. It can't be. Using "markdown" for config really means building a shitty ad hoc configuration language and embedding it in markdown. I've seen this a few times and it's always a disaster. The only way I've found to make configuration tolerable is to go in the opposite direction and turn it into code with a declarative eDSL. For example Pulumi's typescript API is an absolute godsend after years of toiling away on HCL and YAML.