Exactly, I showed here how we just write plain shell scripts. It gives you "PHP-like productivity", iterating 50 times a minute. Not one iteration every 5 minutes or 50 minutes.

https://lobste.rs/s/veoan6/github_actions_could_be_so_much_b...

Also, seamlessly interleaving shell and declarative JSON-like data -- without YAML -- is a main point of http://www.oilshell.org, and Hay

Hay Ain't YAML - https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.18.0/doc/hay.html