[mieubrisse]

I do think there's a power to the readability that makes it more approachable (but which eventually burns you). We were rewriting our AST at Kurtosis last year, and the default choice we were going to go with was of course YAML. But we came across a Github issue from DroneCI (who also started with YAML) that said something like, "we started with YAML, and we learned that you always eventually want to add more complex lotic on top. Go with a Turing-complete language to begin with, else you'll be in the CircleCI trap inventing a language via YAML DSL."

We decided to go with Starlark as the base language for our DSL, and we've had a consistently great experience. Users report that it's very approachable, and the starlark-go library is very pleaeant to deal with.