Every Sufficiently Advanced Configuration Language Is Wrong

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    A thousand times, yes. I've wanted to write this same article. Thanks for saving me the time!

    The industry is going to great lengths to avoid writing configuration in any ubiquitous imperative programming language. We're seeing the proliferation of hyper-specialized, clunky declarative languages with sub-par tooling and package ecosystems. In what world are templates acceptable code? I don't mean to pick on anything specific, but this[0] is the most recent example I've come across, and it's far from the most unreadable examples.

    [0]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik-helm-chart/blob/master/tr...

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