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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by Jeff_Brown on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:14PM (#20357000)
> All I did was add another layer of complexity

If that was in fact all you had done, it would not be worth it. But it might remove a ton of boilerplate from your YAML.

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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by LoSboccacc on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:56PM (#20357719)
or, one can eliminate boilerplate in code so that configuration stays simple and the logic in the application

I mean what's the role of configuration? is so that installer can tune or match environments. if configuration becomes as hard as your program to understand then installation won't ever scale

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