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Re:Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python by hathawsh on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @03:33PM (#40215265)
Have you been introduced to functional programming? It's excellent and mind-bending at first. Here's an overview: https://github.com/readme/guides/functional-programming-basi...

Declarative structure is at the heart of functional programming. Declarative is not the right choice everywhere, but when it makes sense, it can significantly raise the quality of the code.

Re:Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python by emmelaich on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:00AM (#40233794)
and yet declarative can be somewhat unhelpful in the face of mutable filesystem