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I may be an unreasonable outlier, but I absolutely refuse to learn a complex config language. YAML/TOML? These are the maximum of punishment I'm willing to dea

by grim_io 11mo ago

I may be an unreasonable outlier, but I absolutely refuse to learn a complex config language. YAML/TOML? These are the maximum of punishment I'm willing to deal with, as they are quite universal and useful in many situations. If you need a complex touring complete config, you better use a reasonably popular general purpose language, or I'm not touching it.

MangoToupe 11mo ago
> you better use a reasonably popular general purpose language Most languages are horrible at templating, so that's its own world of pain.
- grim_io 11mo ago
  What kind of templating are we talking about? HTML or in general? If we take python, for example, you could use jinja for HTML and composition/inheritance for the general stuff. That's all django does, and it does it well. I don't see what nix is doing so much better. Prefer JS/TS? You can have JSX, which is superior in any way compared to this nix-based abomination.