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I love the company's mission statement: "Replacing YAML with spreadsheets has always been our mission as a company, and we will continue to do so."
by osigurdson 2y ago
I love the company's mission statement:
"Replacing YAML with spreadsheets has always been our mission as a company, and we will continue to do so."
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoThey’re not worse than YAML…
- cm2187 2y agoIn fact as a configuration file, spreadsheets are a much superior UI, you can change lots of numbers very quickly if your config is tabular in nature. Whether it is a good idea that what you type should modify a prod environment live is a different question. Working in finance and living in spreadsheet it sounds like a terrible design to me. You want to be to inspect the whole config change before it affects the target system.
- osigurdson 2y agoAgree. I don't many use cases for manually editing the numbers of various things.
- progbits 2y agoAlso in spreadsheet you can do proper computation, reference other values, make VLOOKUPs. So much better than YAML where the entire ecosystem seems to pretend there isn't a need for abstraction in configs.