repeat after me: yaml is not a programming language. (boo, hn strips emojis, i should know that)

very disappointed that their domain specific language is just yaml. conditionals and variable binding become insane war crimes when yaml comes to town. you have a friggin llm, do better

and when we computer folks see the word language its implied that its a computing on computers language not a friggin data format.

edit: the yaml to avoid complexity that should live in the sql side can back fire, some folks I was working with last fall were evaluating if a yaml based OLAP tool would work for them, and there were some pretty gnarly gotchas from a yaml based approach. Secondarily, theres a real case to be made that having the data linkages not visible in the charting layer means that groups of related plots with different axes wont have the right data linkage without forcing a lot more ETL for what should be a quick plot if the data already fits in memory.