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nickelpro 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Abstraction, not syntax

Yes, one more DSL on your Tower of Babel tech stack will save you.

If you want configuration-as-code use Python. Please. Or Tcl if you must. Do not invent N+1 DSL for your engineers to waste time learning.

qezz 9 months ago [–]

Luckily, the main point of the article is that syntax doesn't matter, but abstractions do. In other words, you can use your favorite DSL, that being Python or TCL or something else.

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