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I miss the days of not putting all the settings of a thing into a text file. I'd take checkboxes and radio buttons over esoteric text files that require extra r
by footlose_3815 3y ago
I miss the days of not putting all the settings of a thing into a text file. I'd take checkboxes and radio buttons over esoteric text files that require extra research every time you edit one.
- verdverm 3y agoHow do you track and review changes in a click based solution? How do you roll back a bad config ?
- footlose_3815 3y agoYAML is like Regex in the "Now you have two problems" philosophy. It's like using an XML file for what a txt file could do. It demands frankly unnecessary structure and formatting just to be ingested, when it's all serially-read parameters, anyway. YAML isn't the only way to implement parameterization. We could use our imaginations and think of a ton of tried-and-true ways to abstract it. Have you ever done a quick-deploy on a cloud platform? The alternatives just generate all the esoteric stuff for you. Config files generated by guided steps.