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0x20cowboyyesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Because it almost always devolves into that anyway. Every yaml system I have ever worked in winds up with some layer on top to “generate the yaml” or some other such madness.


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ufoyesterday at 6:27 PM

In fact, that's how Lua itself came to be. They started with a simple configuration language and added more and more features until at some point they decided to rip the bandaid and turn it into a proper programming language.