[sambeau]

I can think of two good reasons:

1. To look clever.

2. To make junior programmers look stupid.

[tgv]

For me, the best reason would be: for the heck of it. But it's IBM's repo. Someone wanted this in some official IBM capacity.

[Eddygandr]

Imagine how much more productive we’d be if Kubernetes had VMMonads, and instead of yaml configs we have Kubernetes Combinators!