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Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The line between configuration is very messy anyways. So many projects abuse YAML as a domain specific language. Looking at you, HomeAssistant and ESPHome!

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume less custom configs are better, but I've seen Ansible yaml files that are just convoluted bash scripts written in yaml, which makes them even more convoluted.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah that occurred to me as well. Then I immediately think that maybe we need ☆one more language☆ to fix this. And then I remember that one xkcd comic...