> you can have DSLs that are json/yaml, is my point

i disagree on the semantics of "DSL" vs "config in json". these are different.

and anyways both of them just pretend to be "reliable" by throwing the responsibility to an upper layer of validator/compiler/interpreter

> it is worse because the tooling around it won't be as good

plantuml is good because of the the tooling around it. not sure if we are agreeing/disagreeing there, confused by the wording