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Yes, the post is somewhat ridiculous. I can take the blame for that. Still, I think the choice of language for these tools matters a lot. With so many experimen
by dj-wonk 12y ago
Yes, the post is somewhat ridiculous. I can take the blame for that. Still, I think the choice of language for these tools matters a lot. With so many experiments in configuration tools, my goal was to raise the point in a light-hearted way.
I'm really interested to see if or how a community with diverse preferences (developers and system administrators) might agree on a small number of configuration management tools. Or are we destined to have these tools splinter across languages?
- gecko 12y agoI doubt it, unfortunately. I think a Nixos-like approach is the closest you can get to having a single tool, simply because it's a fairly logical extension of apt/rpm/etc.-style systems, but its very operation makes it too alien for me to get it adopted anywhere. I currently suspect that a movement to more PaaS-like designs is actually going to be our saving grace, simply because it ought to take so much off the table. Then we can look at tools like Clojure, Haskell, Prolog, and other similar language concepts to try to tackle the other half of things.
- peteretep 12y ago> I think the choice of language for these tools matters > a lot I read the post, and still don't know _why_ you think it matters, when comparing two data-interchange languages.
- dj-wonk 12y agoI'm saying that using a data interchange language (whether it be XML or YAML) is no substitute for a programming language.