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by guggle 2534 days ago
> i’d argue that putting yet another language in your stack just for generating config files is added unneeded complexity.

Well... I'd argue that when using Python I don't feel the need for a config file language in the first place... it's human friendly enough and I don't have to learn another syntax, use another parser, etc. I had to work on a Symfony project recently and I wish it wasn't sprinkled with all those yaml files.

> I’ve never caught myself thinking “if only there was a nice way to limit myself to a non Turing complete subset of python/Haskell”

Ditto... seems like bloat to me. There may be some use cases I don't know about but these config file languages tend to repel me.