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+1. YAML is a terrible foundation for a declarative config. You need a language designed for declarative config. Some commenter above said that this space is
by 1attice 4y ago
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YAML is a terrible foundation for a declarative config. You need a language designed for declarative config.
Some commenter above said that this space is too messy for a purely declarative language; someone else said Pulumi should be thought of as a macro language to generate a declarative spec.
Instead of bolting on a whole Python interpreter to work as a macro language to generate a theoretical declarative spec, why not instead just write a declarative spec in a sanely declarative language?
It's not that hard to learn Nix. Stop procrastinating, everyone, and go learn Nix :)
- pydry 4y agoYAML is designed for declarative config.
- 1attice 4y agoGiven that it has none of the features that make Nix bearable, and (if my long memory serves) has repeatedly been busted for truck-sized security holes, and, on top of that, has a grammar that makes me long for that old gif of a hexadecimal keypad, because at least hexadecimal is clear, I'd say it failed, badly.