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I'm not a Tik-Tok child and have an attention span long enough to focus on coding longer pieces. However, I shouldn't be required to read all this wall of text

I'm not a Tik-Tok child and have an attention span long enough to focus on coding longer pieces. However, I shouldn't be required to read all this wall of text to understand what this product is about. Could you summarize it in 4 sentences: what it is and why I should use it (instead of X or Y)?

nickstinemates 2y ago
How about 1 sentence? "System Initiative is an Intuitive, Powerful, and Collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code" from https://systeminit.com https://systeminit.com
- mst 2y ago
  That sentence reads to me as "the product has been described using marketing." (I don't have a better one sentence tagline as such, mind, but honestly if I'd only read that I'd never have bothered to look - see my sibling comment for an attempt at an actual high level description ... especially since I probably got something wrong you'll need to correct ;)
  - nickstinemates 2y ago
    Your comment is GREAT. We were all really impressed with your interpretation, thank you very much!
    - mst 2y ago
      Amusingly (to me at least) that was based just on the blog post and zooming in to the screenshot at the top. However, thank -you- very much for the response and you're absolutely welcome. Please consider the comment to be licensed under the union of all OSI approved licenses [1] if you want to steal and/or improve any of the wording. [1] The debian ftpmasters once complained about my having released something to CPAN with two licenses inside. I asked if they wanted the next release to be explicitly under said union so they'd have to tag the upload with all of them. They decided their complaint wasn't actually that important after all. (and if that makes you think I'm a monster ... ask Adam to explain just how right you are about that ;)
mst 2y ago
"Imagine if you took IaC, bolted a slick Native Objects style frontend onto it, made it collaboratively editable and integrated version control and - perhaps most importantly[1] - a high fidelity preview simulator so you could look at the total expected results of your configuration changes without having to wait for AWS/etc. to finish catching up." [1] To me at least.

nickstinemates 2y ago

How about 1 sentence? "System Initiative is an Intuitive, Powerful, and Collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code" from https://systeminit.com https://systeminit.com

mst 2y ago
That sentence reads to me as "the product has been described using marketing." (I don't have a better one sentence tagline as such, mind, but honestly if I'd only read that I'd never have bothered to look - see my sibling comment for an attempt at an actual high level description ... especially since I probably got something wrong you'll need to correct ;)
- nickstinemates 2y ago
  Your comment is GREAT. We were all really impressed with your interpretation, thank you very much!
  - mst 2y ago
    Amusingly (to me at least) that was based just on the blog post and zooming in to the screenshot at the top. However, thank -you- very much for the response and you're absolutely welcome. Please consider the comment to be licensed under the union of all OSI approved licenses [1] if you want to steal and/or improve any of the wording. [1] The debian ftpmasters once complained about my having released something to CPAN with two licenses inside. I asked if they wanted the next release to be explicitly under said union so they'd have to tag the upload with all of them. They decided their complaint wasn't actually that important after all. (and if that makes you think I'm a monster ... ask Adam to explain just how right you are about that ;)

mst 2y ago

"Imagine if you took IaC, bolted a slick Native Objects style frontend onto it, made it collaboratively editable and integrated version control and - perhaps most importantly[1] - a high fidelity preview simulator so you could look at the total expected results of your configuration changes without having to wait for AWS/etc. to finish catching up." [1] To me at least.