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> it seems like the holy grail to the config files dilemma is to just hard-code desired settings in the source code

That is…not remotely the holy grail. You’re really throwing out the baby with the bathwater on that one. User-configurable settings are important for many, many applications.

In the narrow case that you’re working on, say, a monorepo for closed-source code that only runs on your own servers, maybe in source code is fine provided there’s no host-level differences that would require a config file.

But for any other circumstance…yeah you need some type of configurability.

[amluto]

Even with a single company closed source monorepo, sometimes it’s useful to change settings without a restart and redeploy. And sometimes one runs more than one instance of the same code.